Hillis v. Meister’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 512 - Swanson v. Liquid Air Corporation (1992), Russell v. Board of County Commissioners (1997)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 William C. Ferguson v. Alvin I. Thomas · Jeroyd W. Greene v. Howard University, a Corporation, Nathan Hare v. Howard University, a Corporation · Prudential Insurance Company of America v. Anaya · Jernigan v. New Amsterdam Casualty Company · Trujillo v. Chavez
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be read by reference to the parties' `norms of conduct and expectations founded upon them.'”
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.