Hyde v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
94 U.S. 523 · 1876
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 23 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2006 · most notably Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson (1924), Frick v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1925)
47 federal appellate · 23 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Nichols Assignee v. Eaton et al.
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entered into and became an incident of the property when it was created.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“"There can be no doubt that the incorporeal right which Fenn had to this seat when lie became bankrupt was property, and the sum realized by the assignees from its sale proves that it was valuable property. Xor do we think there can bo any reason to doubt that, if he had made no such assignment, it would have passed, subject to the rules of the stock board, to iiis assignee in bankruptcy, and that, if there had been left in the hands of the defendants any balance after paying the debts due to the members of the board, that balance might have been recovered by the assignee.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re Werder · In re Page“[i]n sales of seats for account of delinquent members, the proceeds shall be applied to the benefit of the members of this Board exclusive of outside creditors, unless there shall be a balance after payment of the claims of members in full.”
2 later decisions 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.