Hiller v. Olmstead’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.2d 5 · 1931
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2006
4 federal appellate · 4 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 Taylor v. Voss · Speier v. Opfer · Artman v. Ferguson · White v. Barnard · In re Weissman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . . Not only would the happening of an event which created contract liability not convert such contract into an”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At issue was whether an insurance contract, after a fire, was converted into evidence of indebtedness. The court stated: The argument presented is that immediately upon the happening of loss the policy of insurance was converted from a simple contract into an”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all bonds, certificates of stock, mortgages, promissory notes, debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness.”
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.