Hines v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1939
17 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 Miller v. Sherry · Donald & Co. v. Hewitt · Evans v. Welch · Blum v. Carter · Dargan v. Waring
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Their obvious purpose is to secure to each family a home and means of livelihood, irrespective of financial misfortune, and beyond the reach of creditors; security of the state from the burden of pauperism, and of the individual citizen from destitution. Such statutes are entitled to a liberal construction, a construction in conformity with the benevolent spirit which moved their enactment.” Hines v. Duncan, 79 Ala. 114 , 115 ( 58 Am. Rep. 580 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.