Hatch v. . Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 1965 · most notably Wanamaker v. . Weaver (1903), Rochester General Hospital v. Ingstrum (1939)
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHatch v. Leonard
Relationships
Relies on Goodman v. . Alexander · Cromwell v. Benjamin · Baker v. Barney
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For, notwithstanding the separation of husband and wife, the former is bound to support the latter, together with her children, in the absence of either an agreement or a decree of the court relieving him from that burden; and in such a case, if the wife purchases only these things which may be held tó be necessaries, the law implies an agency on her part to make the purchase on the husband’s credit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Constable v. Rosener
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.