Hunter v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2023
10 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 Clark v. Ganson · Rambur v. Diehl Lumber Company · Wiley Electric, Inc. v. Brantley · Kelly v. Abbott · Day v. Hurchman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If any action is commenced within due time, and ... if the plaintiff fail in such action otherwise than upon the merits, the plaintiff ... may commence a new action within one (1) year after the ... failure although the time limit for commencing the action shall have expired before the new action is filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sedbrook v. Rouse“The filing of an amended petition without leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party is without effect.”
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.