Peterson v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1972
13 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 City of Miami Beach v. the Texas Co. · Sandlin v. Hunter Co. · Markell v. Hilpert · Simpson v. First National Bank of Pensacola · Cobb v. Cobb
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The evidence was conflicting and it was the duty of the Chancellor to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the probative force of the evidence. In such cases the decree will not be disturbed by the appellate court, unless the appellant makes it clearly to appear that substantial error was committed by the Chancellor in his conclusions, or that the evidence clearly shows them to be erroneous."”
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.