Hulsey v. Hightower’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably Williams v. Grier (1943), Corley v. Lewless (1971)
1 federal appellate · 29 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 Southern Railway Co. v. Webb · Krueger v. MacDougald · People v. . Heineman · Andrews & Co. v. Kinsel · Hartnett v. Boston Store
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the act of a child is legally traceable to the negligence of its father, the latter may be held responsible for injury and damage occasioned thereby; but in such a case the cause of action is founded upon the negligence of the father, and not upon the negligence of the child plus the paternal relation."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bullock v. Armstrong
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.