Hughett v. Caldwell County’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Beaulieu v. Elliott (1967), Nortex Oil & Gas Corp. v. Harbor Insurance Co. (1970)
13 federal appellate · 38 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 Swiss Oil Corporation v. Hupp · Falls Branch Coal Co. v. Proctor Coal Co. · Kentucky Harlan Coal Co. v. Harlan Gas Coal Co. · Sandy River Cannel Coal Co. v. White House Cannel Coal Co. · Reed v. Mercer County Fiscal Court
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a willful trespasser is one who knowingly and willfully encroaches or enters upon the land of another and takes his mineral without color or claim of right, or one who dishonestly or in bad faith mines minerals of another and converts them to his own use.... Hughett, 230 S.W.2d at 94 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.