Hill v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably A,B,C,D,E,F,G, & H v. District Court of the Second Judicial District (1976), Wilcoxon v. United States (1956)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Ferguson v. McBean · Fearnley v. Fearnley · Hall v. Hall · Green v. Fuller · Moran v. Thurman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We know of no rule which precludes parties who are sui juris from entering into such a contract, and, while the court is not necessarily bound by the agreement, if its terms are fair and no fraud attends its execution, it may be recognized by the court.’1’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray v. Manatt
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.