Hall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 27 · 1875
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1925
2 district · 13 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 Osborn v. Nicholson · Fowler v. Merrill · Hill v. Bishop · Jackson ex dem. People v. Lervey
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The United States have no interest in the controversy: The government is merely a fund-holder for the benefit of the one of the two other parties who shall succeed in the litigation.””
1 later decision 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.