Hynes v. Packard’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently April 1985 · most notably Houston First American Savings v. Musick (1983), City of Beaumont v. Moore (1947)
2 federal appellate · 92 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury found that there was a failure of title to the 681 aeres, and they valued these 681 acres at the average value of the whole amount of land conveyed; whereas, the true measure of damages, if there was in fact a failure of title to any portion of the land, would be the actual value of the particular lots or parcels to which there was a failure of title, to be ascertained by their relative value compared with the balance of the land, assuming the price agreed on by the parties as the value of the whole.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGinley v. Martin““If the land lost was of no value, plaintiff was entitled to nothing; and, if of ‘little value,’ the amount should have been proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGinley v. Martin
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.