Waters v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1966
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Briant v. Garrison · RoBards v. Brown
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second clause of the will separates these shares from the balance of the estate and bequeaths them to Mrs. Yernon. It would be hard to conceive of a more specific legacy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. Thompson“sixty shares of stock of the Carthage National Bank of Carthage, Missouri.”
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.