104 Ind. App. 167 - Hiatt v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1991
9 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 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Talbot · Gaiser v. Buck · Goodbub v. Estate of Hornung · Niklaus v. Conkling · Mayne v. Board of Commissioners
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute must be so construed as to make it effect the purpose for which it was enacted, and if necessary to that end, it will be applied to past as well as to future transactions, although it does not in terms so direct, unless to do so will impair some vested right or violate some constitutional guaranty.”
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.