Condict v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1991
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.
Relationships
Relies on Heinze v. Murphy · Cosfriff Bros. v. Miller · Wilson v. Hall · Williams v. Campbell · Holliman v. Lucas
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is civilly liable to the other . . . and the fact that the parties voluntarily engaged in combat is no defense to an action by either of them to recover damages for personal injuries inflicted upon him by the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Galea'i v. Atofau“The evidence as a whole was amply sufficient to have justified a conclusion on the part of the trial court that Condict either acted as an aggressor or used more force than was necessary for self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Strohman
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.