Alexander v. Hillman’s Empirical Analysis
75 F.2d 451 · 1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on General Electric Co. v. Marvel Rare Metals Co. · American Mills Co. v. American Surety Co. · White v. Ewing · Stewart v. Ramsay · G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“treating it as a petition to stay action on the claims . . . and as setting up defenses . . . where the matters alleged could be considered as purely matters of defense as distinguished from counterclaims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alexander v. Hillman“so that they could be set off against the claims, or the amounts payable thereunder, as might be proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alexander v. Hillman
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.