Hill v. Mendenhall’s Empirical Analysis
88 U.S. 453 · 1874
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Fsa v. Oaklawn Apartments (1992), Booth v. Fletcher (1938)
27 federal appellate · 12 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Harrod v. Barretto
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an attorney of a court of record appears in an action for one of the parties, his authority, in the absence of any proof to the contrary, will be presumed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The office of pleading is to inform the court and the parties of the facts in issue; the court that it may declare the law, and the parties that they may know what to meet by their proof.””
2 later decisions 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.