Hunt v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 1949
12 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.
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.
““I give and bequeath in addition to the above to my wife all my personal estate for and during her natural life and if needed by her for her comfort and maintenance, she shall nse the principal as well as the interest except so much as hereinafter disposed of.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morgan v. Meacham
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.