Hurd v. . Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1932
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The agreement sued upon does not show upon its face any consideration which will support an action upon it against the defendant. The plaintiff does not agree to take any sand, nor is there any understanding on his part which furnishes a consideration for the agreement of the defendant;” citing the case of Railroad Co. v. Dane, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But a consideration may be shown by extrinsic evidence, and, as this point was not raised on the trial, we cannot assume that such consideration did not exist.””
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.