Hurley v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably Marks v. . Cowdin (1919), Ransdel v. Moore (1899)
1 federal appellate · 78 state decisions — followed in 27 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 Nichols v. Johnson · Robert Barry v. Griffith Coombe
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a house and lot of land situated on Amity Street, Lynn, Mass.,”
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.