Hillers v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2006
5 federal appellate · 10 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 Gill v. Staylor · Nevins v. Nevins · Hillers v. Taylor · Rose v. Mitchell · Gans Salvage Co. v. Byrnes.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In that respect the defendant’s acts and utterances as recited by the spouse are not hearsay, and are1 admitted, not as evidence of the truth of the statements, but of the mental state and motives of the party making them without reference to the truth of the statements themselves.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schneider v. Tapfer
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.