Hanson v. Hearn’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Atlantic Contracting & Material Co. v. Ulico Casualty Co. (2004), Jones v. Hubbard (1999)
25 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Roberts v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Sylacauga · Schwab v. Schwab · 494 So. 2d 44 - SOUTHERN HOUSING PART., INC. v. Stowers Management Co. · 350 So. 2d 328 - Price v. AMERICAN NAT. BANK OF GADSDEN · 412 So. 2d 264 - Quick v. Campbell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are free to review `all the relevant circumstances surrounding the judgment,' and `the entire judgment . . . should be read as a whole in the light of all the circumstances as well as of the conduct of the parties.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Rules applicable to the construction and interpretation of contracts are applicable to the construction and interpretation of judgments.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An interpretation of the judgment that gives meaning according to its entirety is favored over one that makes some part of it mere surplusage.”
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.