Hoyle v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1984
21 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 Bell v. Oates
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claims of the character of the one here involved, brought up for the first time after the death of the decedent, are looked upon by the courts with disfavor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence must clearly establish a contract, express or implied, between the claimant and decedent, providing therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.