Hardin v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Greenhalgh v. Service Lloyds Insurance Co. (1990), Yowell v. Piper Aircraft Corp. (1986)
128 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 Victory v. State of Texas · Vermillion v. Haynes · Patino v. Texas Employers Insurance Association · Herrin Transportation Co. v. Parker · Plata v. Guzman
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at such time as not to operate as a surprise to the opposite party”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“When amendments which introduce new substantive matter have been refused by the trial court under rule 63, the burden of showing an abuse of discretion is on the complaining party, rather than on the opposite party to show surprise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“based on the trial court's conclusion that the amendment on its face is calculated to surprise or that the amendment would reshape the cause of action, prejudicing the opposing party and unnecessarily delaying the trial.”
2 later decisions 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.