Hamilton v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1980
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 3 La. Ann. 328 - Vaughan v. Christine · Jamison v. Smith · 25 La. Ann. 483 - Seyburn v. Deyris · Miguez v. Delcambre · Lea v. Myers
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.
““A partition suit and partition sale, if only relatively null, not absolutely null in the sense of nonexistence, cannot be ignored, as if having never taken place, in a suit to recover the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lang v. Fornea
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.