George Hazelton v. Margaret R Sheckels’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably American Seating Co. v. Zell (1944), Kuhn v. Buhl (1916)
7 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McMullen v. Hoffman · Alexander Marshall v. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company · Tool Company v. Norris · Bishop v. Palmer · Mills v. . Mills
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If that [the offer] should be improper, it probably would be hidden, and would not appear."”
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.