Hobbs v. Ludlow’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1970
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Sinclair v. Gunzenhauser · Garrigue v. Kellar · Morrison v. Kendall · Barrett v. Dodge · Cox v. National Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lex fori governs in respect to matters concerning the remedy to be pursued, including the bringing of suits, etc., . . . and in respect to the limitation of actions . . ., as well in the matter of exceptions from the bar fixed by the statute, as in the matter of the actual bar itself, . . .””
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.