Texas v. Hardenberg’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 68 · 1869
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Moore v. Crawford (1889), Dann v. Studebaker-Packard Corp. (1961)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It. may be admitted that these allegations and interrogatories do not assert the right oí the complainant to the proceeds with absolute directness, and distinctness. The bill might have been better drawn. But we think it would savor of extreme technicality to refuse to see in the bill enough in relation to the proceeds of the bonds to warrant relief in this respect under the general prayer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“available in the hands of any holder until the same shall have been indorsed, in the city of Austin, by the governor of the State. of Texas.”
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.