Hitt v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably Summerlot v. Summerlot (1980), Witherspoon v. Brummett (1946)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Thompson · Rennert v. Shirk · Taylor v. Duesterberg · Walker v. Hill · Dyer v. Eldridge
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all suits by or against heirs or devisees, founded on a contract with or demand against the ancestor, to obtain title to, or possession of property, real or personal, of, or in right of, such ancestor, or to affect the same in any manner, neither party to such suit shall be a competent witness as to any matter which occurred prior to the death of the ancestor.” [Acts 1881 (Spec.Sess.), ch. 38, § 277, p. 240.]”
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.