Hughes v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably 231 Cal. App. 3d 1089 - Nymark v. Heart Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1991), 127 Wash. 2d 17 - Schaaf v. Highfield (1995)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 69 Cal. 2d 850 - Connor v. Great Western Savings & Loan Ass'n · Rivers v. State · Viens v. Lanctot · Lincoln v. Emerson · Sargent v. Town of Cornwall
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires only the evidentiary burden usual in negligence, that of a preponderance of the evidence, since fraud is not involved”
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.