Hoult v. Hoult’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 29 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2013
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Russell v. Place · Precision Air Parts, Inc. v. Avco Corp. · Hoult v. Hoult · Dennis v. Rhode Island Hospital Trust National Bank
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a finding is `necessary' if it was central to the route that led the factfinder to the judgment reached, even if the result `could have been achieved by a different, shorter and more efficient route. '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`necessary component of the decision reached'”
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.