Hamilton v. Bayer’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1962
18 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 In Re Proving the Will of Coleman · Loder v. . Whelpley · Westover v. . Aetna Life Ins. Co. · Phillips v. Chase · Doherty v. O'Callaghan
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prohibitions in the preceding sections do not apply to cases where the party in whose favor the respective provisions are enacted, waives the rights thereby conferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Coons'estate
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.