Hepburn v. The School Directors’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 480 · 1874
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Mercantile Nat Bank of New York v. Mayor Etc of New York (1887), Des Moines Nat Bank v. Fairweather (1923)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Fashnacht v. Frank
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyer v. Boyer“mortgages, judgments, recognizances, and money owing upon articles of agreement for the sale of real estate,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyer v. Boyer
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.