Whitehurst v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2016
7 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who has received more than his share of the rents and profits from lands owned by him and others as tenants in common is accountable to his cotenants for their share of such rents and profits. In the absence of an agreement or understanding to the contrary, he is ordinarily liable only for the rents and profits which he has received. He is not liable for the use and occupation of the lands, but only for the rents and profits received. 47 C.J., 465.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no error in the judgment in this action that plaintiffs, as heirs at law of John L. Hinton . . . are now the owners of an undivided one-sixth interest, and that defendants, who are the remaining heirs at law of the said John L. Hinton . . . are now the owners of an undivided five-sixths interest, in all the lands of which the said John L. Hinton died seized and possessed, except . . .,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehurst v. Hinton
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.