Hardwick v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1932
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 Mills v. Kansas Lumber Co.
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.
““A description which would enable third persons, aided by inquiries which the instrument itself suggests,- to identify the property, is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is not necessary that the property should be so described as to be capable of being identified by written recitals.””
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.