Hunter v. Forrest’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1963
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hunter v. Forrest · Hunter v. Forrest
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The judgment not only established the law of the case but decided definitely the issue which is argued again by the appellant on this appeal. * * * To reconsider an issue as to which the correlative rights of the parties have been adjudged by a final judgment of a court of last resort would do violence to the rights of the party or parties in whose favor the judgment was rendered."”
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.