Hudson v. Moonier’s Empirical Analysis
304 U.S. 397 · 1938
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1972 · most notably Susan Passwaters, by Donald Passwaters, Her Father and Next Friend, and Donald Passwaters v. General Motors Corporation (1972), Schumacher v. Leslie (1950)
19 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · State of Oklahoma Johnson v. Cook
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court treated the question of the liability of the lessor as one of general law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hudson v. Moonier“should have applied the law of Missouri where the injury occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hudson v. Moonier
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.