Hawley v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1997
2 district · 16 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 President, Directors & Co. of Rensselaer Glass Factory v. Reid · Sammis v. Clark · Aldrich v. Durham
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To the first proposition it may be replied that the term ‘instrument of writing,’ as here used, has a definite legal meaning, which excludes a verdict as something essentially different. An instrument of writing implies an agreement or contract which it contains, and of which it is the memorial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a verdict is not conclusive until final judgment is entered upon it; until then it is liable to be made nugatory by arrest of judgment or new trial; until then the issues submitted are not res judicata, nor can it be relied upon as proof of the facts found.”
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.