Hosmer v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1947 · most notably Roehm v. Horst (1900), Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Richards (1894)
34 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Derby v. Johnson · Allen v. Jarvis · Hoagland v. Moore · Moody v. Brown
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““■The plaintiff [defendant] having appropriated and received the benefit of the labor (or, what is equivalent, having induced the plaintiff to expend his labor for him, and, if properly performed according to his desire, the defendant being estopped to deny the benefit), a duty is imposed upon the defendant to pay for -the labor thus performed.””
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.