Hunter v. . Wetsell’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Hanes v. State (1900), Carlisle v. . Norris (1915)
3 federal appellate · 43 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Pollen v. . Le Roy · Lawrence v. Barker · Hawley v. . Keeler · City of Rochester v. . Hart · Williams v. . Sargeant
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case as now presented, the difficulty, fatal before, Is claimed to have been obviated. There is proof of a restatement of the essential terms of the contract at the time of the delivery of the check for §200.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colton v. Raymond
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.