Hardy v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Brill v. Ulrey (1970), McNish v. American Brass Co. (1952)
32 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 Bowen v. Morgillo · Doolittle v. Selectmen of Branford · Perkins v. August
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]itle to [real property] vests at once in the heirs subject only to such rights as might arise out of the need to come upon them to satisfy debts and expenses of administration, and distribution [is] not necessary to confer title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Extraneous facts may exist which would disclose a deficiency of necessary parties but these could not be taken advantage of by [a motion to strike].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.