Hunt v. Heaton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Hejl v. Wirth · Lewis v. Jacksonville Building & Loan Ass'n · Exxon Corporation v. Brecheen · Plumb v. Stuessy · Hancock v. Tram Lumber Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a particular statute is mandatory or directory does not depend upon its form, but upon the intention of the Legislature, to be ascertained from a consideration of the entire act, its nature, its object, and the consequen[ecles that would result from construing it one way or the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although the word 'shall is generally construed to be mandatory, it may be ... held to be directory. In addition, a statute may be mandatory in some respects and directory in others.”
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.