Hitt v. Herndon’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Tolbird v. Cooper (1962), 772 So. 2d 128 - State v. Reynolds (2000)
53 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 Wood v. Monteleone · Hyman Hiller & Co. v. New Orleans, M. & C. R. · Clover v. Gottlieb · Burch v. Americanus Willis · School Directors v. Anderson
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation takes place, whatever be the causes of either of the debts, except in case: “1. Of a demand for restitution of a thing of which the owner has been unjustly deprived. * * * ””
2 later decisions 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.