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← 5 Mass. 42 - Hatch v. Smith

Hatch v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1809

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
8
states following
March 1945
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1945

1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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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 Ballou v. Talbot · Long v. Colburn · Jackson ex. dem. Livingston v. Delancy · Jackson ex dem. Livingston v. De Lancey · Murdock v. Stickney

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““We do not think that the contract between Smith and his creditors,can be construed to have been made with an intent to defeat or delay his creditors.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.