Hazelton v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1850
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1994
15 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 Cook v. Stearns
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In cases . . . where money has been expended, or improvements made in buildings erected on the faith of a parol license which has been thus executed, courts of equity have generally interposed, at all events, so far as to restrain the licensee [licensor] from appropriating to his own use and benefit, the labor expended and improvements made on the faith of such license, without placing the licensee in the same situation in which he stood before he entered upon its execution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diver v. Diver
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.