Hansen v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1994
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Royal Realty Co. v. Levin · Meagher v. Kavli · Miller v. Monsen · Krause v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Horn v. Western Land Ass'n
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ■■ * * defendant * * * persuaded and induced * * * Clara E. Pastoret to breach * * * [a] contract * * * whereby she retained plaintiff as her attorney during her life to assist her in legal and business matters and, inter alia, made said agreement binding upon the executors of her estate and also executed her Will wherein plaintiff was appointed contingent Co-Executor and sole attorney for her estate * * * [and which, following her death on May 28, 1956, is] presently being probated * * * ; and according to the Inventory filed therein, the assets thereof total over One Million Dollars * *”
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.