Hurt v. Noble’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bartlett v. American National Bank & Trust Co. of Sapulpa · Estate of Heard · 84 Ill. App. 3d 151 - Wielert v. Larson · In Re Trusts Created by Agreement With Harrington · Smith v. Reinhart
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No adoption may be challenged on any ground either by a direct or collateral attack more than one (1) year after the entry of the final adoption decree regardless of whether the decree is void or voidable....”
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.