Hynes v. Halstead’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1993
8 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 Wadd v. . Hazelton · Gray v. . Barton · Thatcher v. Wardens & Vestrymen of St. Andrew's Church · Taft v. Taft · Wellborn v. Weaver
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Mr. Hynes gave me the deed to give to Ward Halstead when he died, unless he should ask for it back,’ and, on cross-examination, he testified, ‘He told me, Mr. Cummings told me that the understanding with Bill was that any time Bill wanted that deed back he could get it. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heinecke v. Portus
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.