Hunt v. . Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock (1906), Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton (1914)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 193 state decisions — followed in 34 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.
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“jurisdiction of the subject-matter is the power lawfully conferred to deal with the general subject involved in the action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.