Hammel v. Little’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.2d 907 · 1936
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2011
3 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Conqueror · Coffey v. United States · Stone v. United States · The Apollon · Gelston v. Hoyt
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]o far as we know it has never been the law that trespass will lie for an act of seizure unless it appears that the act was tortious or unauthorized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the sweeping language of [ The Apollon ] that probable cause is never an excuse for a seizure ... was doubtless meant to apply only to the case then under consideration by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f a man by warrant is arrested for suspicion of a felony, it is not necessary that he should be found guilty on his trial, in order to justify the arrest,”
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.