Hamilton v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1977
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Megowan v. . Peterson · Home Lumber Co. v. Hopkins · Rand v. Farquhar · State v. Toliver · Adams v. Swig
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ‘Massachusetts Trust’ is a corporation within the meaning of that word as defined in section 6 of article 12 of the Kansas Constitution as including ‘all associations and joint-stock companies, having powers and privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships,’ and as used in statutes the subject matter of which makes the definition pertinent and within the reason of the legislation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reilly v. Clyne
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.