Hughes v. Eisner’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 5 Cal. App. 4th 1412 - Alling v. Universal Manufacturing Corp. (1992), Marchitto v. Central R. Co. of NJ (1952)
3 district · 45 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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * He voices dissatisfaction with the opinion of the Appellate Division. Appeals, however, are taken from judgments and not from opinions. * * *”
4 later decisions 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.