Hale v. Proffit’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1954
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The father and mother knew of the wrong done the girl; they knew that the land was everything the son had out of which her claim could be made. They knew the effect of the deed and they could not well have failed to know the son’s purpose in making the deed. In addition to this all, the circumstances connected with the transaction indicate that it was hurried*through, and the testimony of the defendants explaining-the transaction is contradictory and unsatisfactory.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Ligon
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.