Hayden v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
April 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McGraw v. Canton · Mayor of Baltimore v. Link · Bell v. Funk · Billingslea v. Henry · In Re Estate of Quinn
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the provision is intended to authorize charging the estate in any case with compensation for legal services against the estate need not be decided now. It does not compel it in all cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gradman v. Brown
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.