Hughes v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1960
15 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.
Relationships
Relies on Huntington v. Attrill · Nebraska National Bank v. Walsh · Jones v. Harris · Arkansas Stables v. Samstag
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Having reached the conclusion that this is a statutory liability, and not a penalty, the statute of limitations would be that applicable to all actions founded upon any contract of liability, expressed or implied not in writing; for before the forms of action were abolished, debt was the proper action for enforcing a statutory liability of the kind under consideration.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.