Hatch v. Indianapolis & Springfield R.’s Empirical Analysis
9 F. 856 · 1882
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1907
3 federal appellate ·
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 Benjamin Story v. Louisa Livingston · Charles McMicken v. Franklin Perin · Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church v. Jaques
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The master, as soon as his report is ready, shall return the same into the clerk’s office, and the. day of tiie return ‘shall be entered by the clerk in the order book. The parties shall have one month from the time of filing the report to file exceptions thereto; and, if no exceptions are within that period filed by either party, the report shall stand confirmed on the next rale-day after the month is expired.””
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.