Hewatt v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2016
2 district · 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 McFadden v. Murray · Tomson v. Lerner · Dowling-Moody Co. v. Hyatt · In re Assignment of Spitz Bros.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was adopted as a humane policy to prevent families from becoming destitute as the result of misfortune through common debts which generally are unforeseen.”
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.