Hendrix v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2000
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instrument, including the parties to bills of exchange and promissory notes, and indorsers and guarantors, may all or any of them be included in the same action, at the option of plaintiff.” (R. S. 60-414.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That an attorney may take any ordinary step in a case for a party, and, taking it, will be presumed to have done so by that party’s authority, is unquestioned. Entering an appearance is one of those steps.” (p. 337.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Ward
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.