Seward v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1991
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A proper allegation of fraud is thus an essential element of the claim which the complaint purports to set forth. It is not sufficient merely to allege in the general words of the regulation that the defendants’ ‘business operated as a fraud and deceit upon the plaintiffs.’ ” Id. at 459 .”
1 later decision 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.