Tinker v. Hirst’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1976 · most notably James v. J. S. Williams & Son, Inc. (1933), Mullins v. Ritchie Grocer Company (1931)
27 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 Ware F. M. C. v. Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co. · Vara v. R. M. Quigley Const. Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Respondent relies upon two propositions, viz.: ‘The utmost reliance must be placed upon the trial judge who sees and hears the witnesses,’ and, ‘where the defendant, by his own course, has created doubt as to his credibility, the judgment will be affirmed in favor of plaintiff, whose testimony was believed by the judge.’ “Where there is conflicting testimony in relation to the material facts of a case and the judge is called upon to ascertain the facts, the authorities cited by respondent in support of the foregoing propositions have application.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyers v. George““Masters and Servants. Masters and 'employers are answerable for the damage occasioned by their servants and overseers, in the exercise of the functions in which they are employed.””
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.