Paul v. Hummel’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1998
12 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 Bullock v. Babcock · Baker v. Haldeman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the minor has committed a tort, with force, he is liable at any age to be proceeded against as an adult.” (Citing authorities.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norton v. Payne
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.