Hadley v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1835
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1940
15 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
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.
““ ‘The evidence is admitted on the presumption, arising from experience, that when a man does an act his contemporary declaration accords with his real intention, unless there be some reason for misrepresenting such intention.’ ””
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.