Hodde v. Susan’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2011
11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a right to protect their interests by interposing a defense to the suit, taking such control over its proceedings as will prevent loss to them by neglect or inattention, and finally of appealing to a higher court, if in their opinion an erroneous judgment has subjected them to loss or damage. Here, then, we have all the characteristics of a party to a suit combined in such surety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A narrow or contracted construction of the term ‘party,’ which confines it to the very persons named on the docket as such, and excludes such as stand precisely in the same relation, would often defeat the end had in view, of having justice impartially administered free from the bias and influence produced by the interest . held in the cause by the judge or his relations.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In our opinion they are parties to the cause in the sense of the term as used in our Constitution and laws.””
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.