Hahn v. Claybrook’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 district · 125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Poffenberger v. Risser (1981), Harig v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1978)
5 federal appellate · 26 district · 125 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.
Relationships
Relies on Garrison v. Hill · Gould v. Palmer · Weaver v. Leiman · Young v. Mackall · Coady v. Reins
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The discoloration of her skin, of which she complained to her husband in 1908 was a sufficient indication of an injury, to have put her upon notice and inquiry, and it is clear from the evidence that if she had exercised ordinary care and diligence to have ascertained her rights, she could have discovered the cause of her alleged injury.”
2 later decisions 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.