Hewitt v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Sichler v. Look (1892), Johnson v. Kaeser (1925)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Buchanan v. Berkshire Life Insurance · Johnson v. Van Velsor · Savings & Loan Society v. Austin · Whitcher v. Webb · Princeton Loan & Trust Co. v. Munson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be deemed and treated as an interest in the property affected thereby,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matthews v. Ormerd
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.