Hutson v. Merrifield’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
10
states following
July 1969
most recently cited
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1969 · most notably Presbyterian Mutual Assurance Fund v. Allen (1886), Mutual Life Insurance v. Allen (1884)
28 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Chapin v. Fellowes · Burroughs v. State Mutual Life Assurance Co. · Coldron v. Rhode
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.