Hawk v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1979
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We take occasion to repeat here that an exception taken to overruling a demurrer is improper, for the point saves itself; it is a" part of the record by the demurrer, and needs no bill of exceptions to place it there.””
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.