Hines v. Frink’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably State v. Kirby (1970), State v. Hamilton (1965)
35 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 Dobias v. White · Chaffin v. Brame · Worsley v. S. &. W. Rendering Co. · Carr v. Lee · Armentrout v. Hughes
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had offered no evidence tending to show any pecuniary loss resulting to the estate of [intestate] from his death, and that it should answer the issue of damages, on which he had the burden of proof, NOTHING. Hence, the judgment of nonsuit was proper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Greene v. Nichols“errors will not authorize a new trial unless it appears that the objecting party was prejudiced thereby[.] . . . We find no reasonable probability that the results of the trial would have been favorable to respondents had such error not occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An assignment which attempts to raise several different questions is broadside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirby
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.