Hamilton v. Huebner’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Lewter v. Abercrombie Enterprises (1954), Anderson v. Cowger (1954)
42 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 Keefe v. State of Arizona · Mima Queen and Childs for Freedom v. Hepburn · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Baier · City of Friend v. Burleigh · Shamp v. Landy Clark Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of liberal construction of the Workmen’s Compensation Act applies to the law, not to the evidence offered to support a claim. The rule does not dispense with the necessity that claimant prove his right to compensation * * * nor does it permit a court to award compensation where the requisite proof is lacking.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Hardship in a particular case does not warrant an exception to the hearsay rule, but the existence of a class of cases in which hearsay is the only possible proof necessitates an exception.”
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.