Clayton v. Hurt’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
125 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently July 1998 · most notably In the Matter of Terry Gober Terry Gober v. Terra + Corporation (1996), Austin Independent School District v. Sierra Club (1973)
125 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.
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such judgment is never void, no matter how erroneous it may appear, from the face of the record or otherwise, to be”
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.