Hiser v. . Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1967 · most notably Middleton v. Luckenbach S. S. Co. (1934), FRAZIER v. Oil Chemical Co. (1962)
2 federal appellate · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHiser v. Davis
Relationships
Relies on Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Bruce Shanks v. Delaware Lackwanna & Western Railroad Company · Erie Co v. Collins · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Kenney · Stannard v. . Hubbell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It also may be debated whether relief can be given in this present action under the Code provision in question. Personally I do not believe it can be. Under the common law and every controlling rule that I am aware of, the child, if illegitimate, will be illegitimate unless this condition can be cured under the specified provision of the Code, and that provision of the Code expressly requires that the question of good faith of the parents must be settled and the decree of legitimacy made in the annulment action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roston v. Folsom“an essential instrumentality in carrying on defendant's business of interstate commerce.”
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.