Lee v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1940
1 federal appellate · 5 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 The People v. . Hovey · Wilson v. Wilson · Yundt v. Hartrunft · Wales v. Miner · Beach v. Brown
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the jury found from the evidence that the plaintiff ‘knew that his wife was about to meet the defendant for the purpose oí having criminal intercourse with him, and by words or acts encouraged her to do- so,’ then they could ‘award him no damages on account of the commission of the act so encouraged by him.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The admissibility of such evidence seems to be unquestioned, and is generally assumed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woldson v. Larson
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.