Hotelling v. Walther’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Fernandi v. Strully (1961), Guy v. SCHULDT (1956)
10 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Albert v. Sherman · Williams v. Elias · Capucci v. Barone · Schmit v. Esser · Weinstein v. Blanchard
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he alleged negligent treatment of the plaintiff must be considered as a whole. . . . The continued negligent treatment constituted but a single cause of action. Where the tort is continuing, the right of action is continuing.”
4 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.