Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
75 U.S. 276 · 1868
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1999 · most notably Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co. (1910), Shappirio v. Goldberg (1904)
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 10 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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Undoubtedly necessary implication is as much a part of an Instrument as if that which is so implied was plainly expressed; but omissions or defects in written instruments cannot be supplied by virtue of that rule unless the implication results from the language employed in the instrument or is indispensable to carry the intention of the parties into effect.””
4 later decisions 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.