116 Ind. App. 214 - Clay v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Robertson (1949), Miller v. Jones (In Re Jones) (1984)
23 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 96 Ind. App. 378 - Gaines v. Taylor · Clearspring Township v. Blough · 98 Ind. App. 139 - Rottger, Rec. v. First-Merchants Natl. Bank · Martin v. Davis · Ansel v. Kyger
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . in order for a party to be entitled to appeal from a final judgment, it must appear that he has a substantial interest in the subject matter of the litigation and that he is prejudiced or aggrieved from the judgment or decree from which he seeks to appeal. . . . (cites omitted)” Clay v. Hamilton (1945), 116 Ind. App. 214 , 63 N. E. 2d 207 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 157. Particular Classes of Claimants. Although a trust is a spendthrift trust or a trust for support, the interest of the beneficiary can be reached in satisfaction of an enforceable claim against the beneficiary, (a) by the wife or child of the beneficiary for support, or by the wife for alimony; ... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as stated in § 156 and 157, if by the terms of a trust it is provided that the trustee shall pay or apply only so much of the income and principal or either as is necessary for the education or support of the beneficiary, the beneficiary cannot transfer Ms interest and Ms creditors cannot reach it.”
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.