Hunt v. Golden’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1993
2 federal appellate · 3 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one obtains property by a contract made with a person he knows to be incompetent and knowingly takes advantage of such incompetency to his own advantage and to the detriment of the incompetent, such action constitutes fraud and will warrant either rescission or an action for damages upon behalf of the incompetent. The following cases substantiate such a rule: Baird v. Howard, 51 Ohio St. 57 , 36 N.E. 732 , 733-34 (1894); Casson v. Schoenfeld, 166 Wis. 401 , 166 N.W. 23, 24-25 (1910) (reversed on other grounds). Also see Am.Jur.2d 636, Incompetent Persons § 97. “Defendant also claims there is no basis for punitive damages because there is no evidence defendant knew of plaintiffs’ incompetency. To the contrary, there is ample evidence from which it could be found that he was well aware of plaintiffs’ condition.””
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.