Hughes v. Hatchett & Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1953
21 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 Hooks v. Br. Bank
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Another principle, if necessary to invoke it, may possibly be -fatal to the defense of incumbrance on the title here relied on. Hughes remains undisturbed in the enjoyment of the land purchased, and he fails to aver fraud in the sale, and fails to prove- insolvency of his vendors.””
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.