Hodges v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Leiter Minerals, Inc. v. California Co. (1961), Ohio Oil Co. v. Ferguson (1946)
7 federal appellate · 31 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 Lee v. Giauque · Jackson v. United Gas Public Service Co. · St. Landry Oil & Gas Co. v. Neal · Connell v. Muslow Oil Co., Inc. · Spears v. Nesbitt
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, in the instatnt case, when A. J. Hodges released in favor of Selby the fifteen-year contractual limitation, his waiver, which inured to the benefit of Norton, had the effect of continuing the life of the servitude for an indefinite period — subject, however, to the prescription established, by law.” 8 So.2d at page 623 .”
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.