Hamilton v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1975
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 14 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking to the maxims of the common la,w and the decisions of courts, both in this country and in England, we are clearly of the opinion that this action cannot be maintained for the taking of the subsequently acquired goods.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grimes v. Clark
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.