Hyder v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation (1999), State v. Von Dohlen (1996)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 Jacobus v. . Colgate · Gunn v. Rollings · Maxey v. Sauls · Pulliam v. Doe · Neel v. Shealy
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An unemancipated child may sue and be sued by his parents in an action for personal injuries arising out of a motor vehicle accident. In any such action there shall be appointed a guardian ad litem as provided by law for such child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elam v. Elam“further inquiry into the facts is not desirable to clarify application of the law.”
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.