Rae v. Hulbert’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1960 · most notably O'Brien v. . Young (1884), Van Matre v. Sankey (1893)
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 Keaggy v. Hite · Sketoe v. Ellis · Woodbury v. Manlove
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot agree witb counsel that a judgment is a contract, within the meaning of this statute. It is the conclusion of the, law upon the rights of the parties, and it is not very common that it is entered up by the agreement of the unsuccessful party, but the reverse is generally the case. In this statute the words ‘action,’ ‘contract,’ and ‘agreement’ are used in their •.ordinary sense, and not with the intention of embracing every imaginable litigation upon every cause of action. A judgment is no more a contract .than is a tort.””
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.