Hayden v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
71 F. 60 · 1895
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably Merrill v. Abbott (In Re Independent Clearing House Co.) (1987), Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States (1906)
33 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 Kennedy v. Gibson · Speidel v. Henrici · Oelrichs v. Spain · Kirby v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad · James Boyce's Executors v. Felix Grundy
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not indispensable that all the parties should have an interest in all the matters contained in the suit. It will be sufficient if each party has an interest in some material matters in the suit, and they are connected with the others. Addison v. Walker, 4 Younge & Col. Ch. 442; Parr v. Attorney General, 8 Clark & F. 409, 435; Worthy v. Johnson, 8 Ga. 236 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Boettcher““These long and complicated accounts can be properly taken and stated, and the just deductions can be drawn from them only in a court in which a careful, patient, and extended examination of all the evidence can be made after it is submitted by a mind trained in the science of accounting and familiar with the law which governs it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It. goes without saying that the national courts, sitting in equity, act or refuse to act in analogy to the statute of limitation of the state in which they are sitting, and that if the analogous action at law against this defendant would be barred under the statutes of Nebraska this suit must be dismissed as against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cockrill v. Butler
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.