Hunter v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably 6 Conn. App. 194 - In re Migdalia M. (1986), Champagne v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. (1989)
2 district · 60 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 Schurgast v. Schumann · American Masons' Supply Co. v. F. W. Brown Co. · E. M. Loew's Enterprises, Inc. v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees · Little v. Ives · Lavieri v. Ulysses
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he presumption is that statutes affecting substantive rights are intended to operate prospectively, and to furnish a rule for future cases only, unless they contain language unequivocally and certainly embracing past transactions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D'ERAMO v. Smith“a statute which, in form, provides but a change in remedy but actually brings about changes in substantive rights is not subject to retroactive application.”
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.