Pratts v. Hurley’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
403 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 405 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Harper (Slip Opinion) (2020), Bank of Am., N.A. v. Kuchta (Slip Opinion) (2014)
403 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 Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · United States v. Cotton · State ex rel. Tubbs Jones v. Suster · Patton v. Diemer · Morrison v. Steiner
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 405 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is an unlawful restraint of a person's liberty and no adequate remedy at law.”
67 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.