Hughes v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1928
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hartford Fire Insurance v. Enoch · Morgan Engineering Co. v. Cache River Drainage District · United States Annuity & Life Insurance v. Peak · Carter v. Younger · Miller v. Jones
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In other words, a failure upon the part of the defendant to comply with the statute raised the inference or presumption of law that the' writing on which he is sued and purporting to he signed by him is genuine, and, having failed to file the affidavit provided by. the statute, the burden is cast on him to show that it is pot genuine. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terrill v. Fowler
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.