Hunt v. Jacobson’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2003
22 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 Land Title & Trust Co. v. Rambo · People v. . Campbell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to provide for, strengthen, and expedite the national defense under the emergent conditions which, are threatening the peace and security of the United States and to enable the United States the more successfully to fulfill the requirements' of the national defense, provision is hereby made to suspend enforcement of civil liabilities, in certain cases, of persons in the military service of the United States in order to enable such persons to devote their entire energy to the defense needs of the Nation, and to this end the following provisions are made for the temporary suspension of legal proceedings and transactions which may prejudice the civil rights of persons in such service during the period herein specified over which this Act remains in force.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At any stage thereof any action or proceeding in any court in which a person in military service is involved, either as plaintiff or defendant, during the period of such service or within sixty days thereafter may, in the discretion of the court in which it is pending, on its own motion, and shall, on application to it by such person or some person on his behalf, be stayed as provided in this act, unless, in the opinion of the court, the ability of plaintiff to prosecute the action or the defendant to conduct his defense is not materially affected by reason of his military service. Oct. 17, 1940, c. 888, 201, 54 Stat. 1181 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`is not to be employed as a vehicle of oppression or abuse....' Such statutes were enacted ... for the protection of the service [member's] rights and remedies, but not to be unjustly taken advantage of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.