Hester v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Petty v. Sloan (1955), Foodtown Stores, Inc. v. Patterson (1968)
41 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hughes v. Daniel · Robinson v. State Ex Rel. James · Hamrick v. Shipp
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In common parlance and often in the law, ‘treatment’ is the broad term covering all the steps taken to effect a cure of the ■ injury or disease; it includes examination and diagnosis as well as application of remedies.””
3 later decisions 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.