Hughes v. Pullman’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hughes v. Lynch (2007), Rosenthal v. County of Madison (2007)
4 district · 20 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 Gianetti v. Norwalk Hospital · Lindey's Inc. v. Professional Consultants, Inc. · Klock v. Town of Cascade · S.L.H. v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund · Duffy v. BUTTE TEACHERS'UNION, NUMBER 332
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A claim of economic duress requires a showing that the contract at issue was made under circumstances evincing a lack of free will on the part of the contracting parties. It is not sufficient to show that consent was secured by the pressure of financial circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“complete Medical, Psychiatric, and/or Chemical Dependency Evaluation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.