Hughes v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2013
14 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 Bond v. Terrell Cotton & Woolen Manufacturing Co. · Morris v. Gaines · First State Bank of Amarillo v. Jones · National Union Indemnity Co. v. Bruce Bros. · Millican v. McNeill
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not to protect the lien holder who acquires a lien with full knowledge of a valid existing prior lien, then in full force from a renewal and extension of such prior lien by the owner of the land, although such renewal and extension may be executed either before or after such prior lien appears to be barred by limitation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he owner of the land and the holder of the note or notes may at any time enter into a valid agreement renewing and extending the debt and lien, so long as it does not prejudice the rights of lien holders or purchasers subsequent to the date such liens became barred of record....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"If refusal to enforce or to rescind an illegal bargain would produce a harmful effect on parties for whose protection the law making the bargain illegal exists, enforcement or rescission, whichever is appropriate, is allowed."”
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.