Hoyt v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
81 F. 641 · 1897
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 1967
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.
Relationships
Relies on Tennessee v. Union & Planters' Bank · Chappell v. Waterworth · Hartell v. Tilghman · James G. Wilson v. George A. Sanford and Robert G. Musgrove · Texas Ry Co v. Cody
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On this statement of the pleadings, the only issue presented by the bill is one of title, depending on the rules of the common law, and in no way on any statute of the United States.””
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.