Hackett v. Hammel’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2017
1 district · 7 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 Huber v. Johnson · Goodrich v. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. · Jacobson v. Barnes · Andrus v. Dyckman Hotel Co.
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.
“"The vice of [the champertous agreement] was that a layman, with no interest in the lawsuit or its subject matter and no relation to defendant, advanced money to carry on the litigation, not as a loan, but to speculate upon and purchase a share in the outcome. In the case of defeat, plaintiff would have gotten nothing. But, if victory came, he would have gotten ten times his investment. Such speculation in litigation in which the adventurer has no interest otherwise and where he is in no way related to the party he aids, is champertous. The element of intrusion for the purpose of mere speculation in the troubles of others introduces the vice fatal to what otherwise would be a contract. "”
2 later decisions 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.