Nathan Hooper Louisa Hooper and Amanda Hooper Minors by Absalom Fowler Their Next Friend v. Jacob Scheimer’s Empirical Analysis
64 U.S. 235 · 1859
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1934 · most notably Sheffield Furnace Co. v. Witherow (1893), Langdon v. Sherwood (1888)
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · Hartshorn v. Day · Doe v. Winn · Hoofnagle v. Anderson · Lessee v. Wendell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But there is another 'question standing in advance of the foregoing, to wit: Can an action of ejectment be maintained in the Federal courts against a defendant in possession, on an entry made with the register and receiver ?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Langdon v. Sherwood
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.