Harris v. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1925
8 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 Hall v. Corcoran
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is the established law that when a plaintiff’s own ■ unlawful act concurs in causing the damage that he complains of, he can not recover compensation for such damage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Devor v. Knauer
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.