Hanson v. Nygaard’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1975
23 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 Simmons v. Saul · Comstock v. Crawford · Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Tisdale · State ex rel. Martin v. Ueland · Davis v. Hudson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notice and an opportunity to be heard is a matter of legislative favor, and not essential to the jurisdiction and power of the court to administer an estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“voidable and subject to be set aside on motion or appeal.”
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.