Hinton v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2010
18 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.
Relationships
Relies on Golenternek v. Kurth · Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance v. Beck · Jonesboro, Lake City & Eastern Railroad v. Ashabranner · Waldo Fertilizer Works, Inc. v. Dickens · Arkansas Natural Gas Co. v. Gallagher
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant also complains that the appellees failed to show that he is legally responsible for the removal of the scales, which were taken away by third persons not parties to this suit. We do not find it necessary to reach this question. Owing to the error indicated 1 the case must be retried, and upon a new trial the plaintiffs may offer additional evidence tending to fix responsibility upon the appellant ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hinton v. Bryant
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.