Hood v. M. F. A. Mutual Insurance Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Bridgeforth v. Proffitt (1973), Bourne Ex Rel. Bourne v. Manley (1968)
33 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 Albert J. Hoppe, Inc. v. St. Louis Public Service Co. · Harke v. Haase · Wiggins v. Burkham · Kenyon v. Knights Templar & Masonic Mutual Aid Ass'n · State Ex Rel. Spears v. McCullen
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably could not have inferred and found, and certainly we cannot know judicially, that the envelope (containing the money order) would, in due course of the mails have been transmitted in time to have been delivered ... on the following day ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is cast in mandatory language, and neither counsel nor the court is at liberty to ignore or wink at that limitation. The order of this court should be and is that [defendant's] purported motion for rehearing or to transfer be stricken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. White“had the right to take judicial notice of the customary operations of the federal mail service, so far as to infer that defendant received the notice ... the next day following that on which the notary mailed it to him in the same city.”
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.