Hurley v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Horton v. Horton (1997), Countryside Orthopaedics, P.C. v. Peyton (2001)
30 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 Southern Railway Co. v. Mauzy · Arwood v. Hill's Administrator · Richardson v. Gardner · Northern Neck Mutual Fire Ass'n v. Turlington · Woods v. Early
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party cannot in the course of the same litigation occupy inconsistent positions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The last amendment adopted in 1932 to subsection 8 of section 5 of the Code (Acts 1932, ch. 31), provides that in computing time, the day on which the event or judgment occurred shall be excluded. The final decree, from which this appeal was obtained, was entered, on April 24, 1933. Hence, the six months period did not begin to run until April 25, 1933.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The party who commits the first breach of a contract, is not entitled to enforce it, or to maintain an action thereon, against the other party for his subsequent failure to perform.””
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.