Hurd v. Hurd’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1986
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Ex parte Spencer · State ex rel. Warfield v. Becht · State ex rel. Hurd v. Willis · Lewis v. Lewis · Nash v. City of Saint Paul
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■“Whenever the contempt consists in the omission to perform an act Avhich is yet in the power of the person to perform, he may be imprisoned until he performs it, and in such case the act shall be specified in the warrant of commitment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strong
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.