Hester v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1939
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are of the opinion that under sections 5292 and 5293, Rev. Laws 1910, unless the cause is revived within one year after the death of the sole plaintiff or defendant, except by consent of the representatives or successors, said action abates.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.