Hope v. Madison’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably 616 So. 2d 1234 - Everything on Wheels Subaru, Inc. v. Subaru South, Inc. (1993), Hope v. Madison (1940)
69 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 Choppin v. Dauphin · Hope v. Gordon · Tensas Delta Land Co. v. Ferguson · Rogers v. Southern Fiber Co. · Mackesy v. Shultz
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Evidence received without objection can enlarge the pleadings only where such evidence was inadmissible under the pleadings, and would have had to be excluded if objected to. As a matter of course, evidence admissible under the pleadings cannot have the effect of enlarging the pleadings, if it had such effect, the issues in every case would have to be ascertained from the evidence instead of from the pleadings.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is an act on the part of a defendant which gives rise to a plaintiff's cause of complaint;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the situation or state of facts which entitles a party to sustain an action”
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.