Hartfield v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1839
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 1974 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 756 - Haft v. Lone Palm Hotel (1970), Holodook v. Spencer (1974)
1 federal appellate · 95 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When he complains of wrongs to himself, the defendant has a right to insist that he should not have been the heedless instrument of his own injury;”
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.