Read v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Waterman v. Tidewater Associated Oil Co. (1947), Arnold v. Sun Oil Co. (1949)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 Reeves v. Towles · Eastman v. Beiller · Wolf v. Wolf · Avery v. Allain · Helluin v. Minor
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The transfer from Lyles to Dunn is an executed contract of more than 20 years’ standing. The vendor' is not permitted to question the sale he has made, and no third person can assail the same, without alleging and proving simulation or fraud to his prejudice.” Wolf v. Wolf, 12 La. Ann. 529 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bickham v. Pitts · Barnes v. Barnes
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.