Insurance Company v. Hallock’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 556 · 1867
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1923
1 district · 11 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 Lessee of Boal v. King
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the paper here called an order of sale is to be treated * * * as a process of any kind issued from the court, which the law required to be issued under the seal of the court, there can be no question that it was void. * * * The authorities are uniform that all process issuing from a court, which by law authenticates such process with its seal, is void if issued without a seal.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A copy of the order of sale, and judgment, shall be issued and certified by the clerk, under the seal of the court, to the sheriff,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.