Hatfield v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Dewey v. Clark (1950), Abrahamsen v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1972)
2 federal appellate · 68 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 Snyder v. Reshenk · Sviggum v. Phillips · Shultz v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. · United States v. Newbury Mfg. Co.
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]articularly on such issues as good faith, intent, and purpose, the bald declaration of a party by affidavit is not sufficient to resolve the issue in the face of a pleaded denial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the comp[l]ete absence of any genuine issue of fact must be apparent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People ex rel. S.N.
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.