Hughey v. Eyssell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1938
10 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 Jenkins v. Parkhill · Wood v. Milly McGuire's Children · Miller v. Bryden · Ferguson v. Thacher · Schweickhardt v. City of St. Louis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants, if liable, are jointly liable, and subject to contribution; and those against whom judgment was rendered have a right to have the question determined whether Weiss is to bear any share of the burden; and, being prejudiced by the error, may take advantage of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was adjudged that plaintiff recover judgment against August Eyssell in the amount of the assessed damages and costs and that she `take nothing by her action in this behalf against defendant Hugo Eyssell and that said defendant go hence without day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`We, the jury, find for the plaintiff and assess her damages at the sum of $1312.50.'”
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.