Hyde v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Reed v. Real Detective Publishing Co. (1945), Jepson v. Stubbs (1977)
7 federal appellate · 25 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 Wales v. Whitney · Johnson v. Hoy · State v. Hyde · Toles v. . Adee · State ex rel. Barker v. Wurdeman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no doubt that the word imprisonment is used in this section in its plain, ordinary meaning. Imprisonment is the act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of locomotion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The reason for the enactment of the statute [now section 516.170] is obvious. One actually imprisoned or physically restrained is deprived of freedom of action. He cannot look after his affairs. It would be a denial of the equal protection of the law if one so restrained were not exempted from the operation of the general statute of limitations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Aubuchon
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.