Hawkins v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1960 · most notably Shorter University v. Franklin (1905), Storey v. Brewer (1960)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Haley v. Young · Jett v. Shinn · Reeves v. Sherwood · Elsey v. Falconer · Zerger v. Quilling
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any officer to whom execution shall he delivered shall neglect or refuse to execute or levy the same according to law s * * or if any officer shall not return any execution on or before the return day therein Specified ⅛ ⅛ ⅜ then, and in any of the eases aforesaid, each officer shall be liable and bound to pay the whole -amount of money in such execution specified or. thereon endorsed and directed to be levied. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grubbs v. Needles
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.