Hahn v. Hahn’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1996 · most notably 35 Cal. 3d 671 - Amador v. Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (1984), 181 Cal. App. 2d 289 - Richard v. Degen & Brody, Inc. (1960)
36 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 Westberg v. Willde · Scott v. Burke · Del Ruth v. Del Ruth · Brenner v. Lesher · Prescott v. Grady
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a provision for attorney's fees in a promissory note is to indemnify the creditor against the necessity of paying an attorney's fee, and to enable him to recover the full amount of his debt without deduction for legal expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.