Hughes v. Will’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2013
9 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 Rester v. Moody & Stewart · Louisiana Highway Commission v. McCain · National Homestead Ass'n v. Graham · Mercantile Nat. Bank v. J. Thos. Driscoll, Inc. · Colonial Creosoting Co. v. Perry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If liens are to be strictly construed, it is obvious that there must be set forth information as to how the claim arises, against whom it is to be asserted, and the amount thereof.””
2 later decisions 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.