Hull v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1967
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Kerr v. Hitt · Kellogg v. Carrico · Hernandez v. Drake · Beecher v. Stephens · Abbott v. Peck
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Newspapers are of so many varieties that it would be next to impossible to give any brief definition which would include and describe all kinds of newspapers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lynch v. Durfee
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.