Hesketh v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1971 · most notably Wilson v. Flowers (1971), Noice v. Schnell (1927)
29 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 Trustees of the Philadelphia Baptist Ass'n v. Hart's Executors · White v. Fisk
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in all matters of construction courts are bound to lean in favor of charity rather than against it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relief of the most deserving poor of the city of Paterson * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the support of old worn out preachers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.