Hale v. Frost’s Empirical Analysis
99 U.S. 389 · 1878
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1980 · most notably Carpenter v. Wabash Railway Co. (1940), Southern Railway Company v. Carnegie Steel Company (1900)
29 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 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.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is -mailing- in the case to show any special equities in their favor in respect to that part of their account which is for material for construction purposes.””
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.