Hustus' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1999 · most notably Pillsbury v. United Engineering Co. (1952), Marsh v. Industrial Accident Commission (1933)
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the workman’s wages, earnings, or salary are lost or reduced by reason of an industrial accident, he becomes in theory of law incapacitated. Then he is entitled to claim compensation. Then the year given for making claim begins to run.””
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.