Hart v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2011
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Michael v. Crawford · Johnson v. Darr · Fuller v. O'Neil · Bon v. Graves · Bomar v. West
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless there was a mistake so palpable that we could say conclusively as a matter of law from the face of the instrument itself that it had been made (see 11 C.J., p. 839, note 60), then, before it could be rectified, the instrument would have to be reformed in a proper proceeding brought for that purpose. In the absence of such proceeding, the power could not properly be exercised, except in the manner expressly provided in the instrument. For a somewhat analogous situation, see Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Davis (Tex.Civ.App.) 282 S.W. 930 .””
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.