In re Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1 F. 800 · 1880
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1956
2 district · 2 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 Mays v. Fritton · Tobey v. Ellis · Associates Commercial Corp. v. Trim-Lean Meat Products, Inc. (In Re Trim-Lean Meat Products, Inc.) · Seidle v. Turner (In re 18th Avenue Development Corp.)
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a partnership claim against [firm B.], the individual creditors of William B. Hamilton must be paid in full before the partnership creditors are entitled to any dividend from his estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Knowlton & Co.““The theory of [firm A".] in this connection is that the conjoint firm was composed, not of the two firms as partners, but of the five individuals composing these two firms.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Knowlton & Co.
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.