Hyde v. Goldsby’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1985
10 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 Madison County Bank v. Suman's Administrator · De Graw v. Prior · Pearson v. Lovejoy · Silvey v. Summer · Young v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under statutes like this, it is not the fact that the party to be notified has actual knowledge of the fact, but it is proof that it has been conveyed to him in the prescribed method, that gives the right of action. (Citing cases.) “As suggested in the last named case, the admission of such proof, in pais, would be attended with much uncertainty, conjecture and diversion into collateral inquiries. But more, it would be to establish another method of proof than that prescribed by the statute, or another mode of service, in fact. The statutory method, once broken through, would open wide the gates for vicious precedents, which rapidly multiply, and too often, in the end, practically nullify the will of the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carstensen v. Hansen
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.