Ex parte Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Ex parte Dickens (1909), 20 Ala. App. 514 - Robertson v. State (1924)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 60 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 Sturges v. Crowninshield · People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . Liscomb · Kearney · Goodman v. Winter · Borman v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Then the imprisonment is not for debt, but for the neglect and refusal to perform a moral and legal duty, performance resting in his ability.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stuart v. Reynolds
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.