United States Lyon et al. v. Huckabee’s Empirical Analysis
83 U.S. 414 · 1872
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan (1884), Downes v. Bidwell (1901)
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Schooner Hoppet and Cargo v. The United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If there be compulsion, there is no binding consent, and it is well settled that moral compulsion, such as that produced by threats to take life or to inflict great bodily harm, as well as that produced by imprisonment, is sufficient in legal contemplation to destroy free agency, without which there can be no contract, because in that state of the ease there is no consent. Unlawful duress is a good defense to a contract, if it includes such degree of constraint or danger, either actually inflicted or threatened and Impending, as is sufficient in severity or apprehension to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * and duress is still often defined as that degree of constraint or danger, either actually inflicted or threatened and impending, which is sufficient in severity or in apprehension to overcome the mind and will of a person of ordinary firmness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Pleadings, in informations for seizures upon land, or for confiscation of property, as well as in causes of admiralty or maritime jurisdiction, or in actions at law or suits in equity, are governed by certain well-established rules of practice, which require that the allegations shall correspond with the facts as proved,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Bayonne
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.