Hawthorne v. Calef’s Empirical Analysis
69 U.S. 10 · 1864
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably Huntington v. Attrill (1892), Noble State Bank v. Haskell (1911)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statute repealing a former statute, which made the stock of the stockholders in a chartered company liable to the corporation’s debts, is as respects creditors of the corporation existing at the time of the repeal a law impairing the obligation of contracts, and void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is virtually and in effect a liability upon a contract, and the mutual agreement of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.