Hayward v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1971 · most notably Bowman v. Redding & Co. (1971), Kress v. Markline (1917)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The opening ought to have been better protected than it was, and the ■omission to do so, under the circumstances proven, may well be attributed to the defendant as gross negligence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.