Hancock v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1962 · most notably 53 So. 2d 706 - Gulf Appliance Distributors v. Long (1951), Federal Land Bank of Columbia v. Brooks (1939)
27 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 Keator Lumber Co. v. Thompson · Viser v. Willard · Magbee v. Kennedy · Crump v. Perkins · Manassee v. Dutton Bank
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in this case no proceedings were taken to revive the abated cause of complainant. Even if it was proper for the court to have again referred the cause to a special master to take testimony in 1936, complainant's abated cause was not properly revived so that such action could be taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * the absence from the record of any affirmative action having been taken in the cause for a period of three years automatically abates the cause * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pollock v. Pollack
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.