Edmonds v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1936
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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the defense be general bad character, evidence of reputation is receivable; ‘for,’ says Lord Kenyon, ‘character is. the only point in issue; public opinion, founded on the conduct of the party, is a fair subject of inquiry.’ If the defense rests on specific allegations of misconduct, these must be strictly proved; and if the defendant kneiv the general bad character, or the specific misconduct, before making the promise, they constitute no defense..” Edmonds v. Hughes, 115 Ky. 566 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Bean
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.