Hale v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1961
7 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 French v. Willer · L. & M. Mercantile Co. v. Wimer · Tredick v. Birrer · Lane v. Ozias · Burdsal v. Shields
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He first argues that forcible entry and detainer is an action criminal in its nature, where a verdict of guilty or not guilty has to be returned, and he calls attention to the statute pertaining thereto (R. S. 61-1310), and argues that no right of appeal is provided for on plaintiff’s behalf. The proceeding, while peculiarly statutory and summary in its nature, is and for several centuries has- been a civil action,- although in ancient times it was otherwise.” (p. 304.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reeves v. McAdoo
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.