Hill v. Talbert’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1968
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Arkmo Lumber Co. v. Cantrell · Williams v. Williams · Black v. Hogsett · Walker v. Eller · Mays v. Ritchie Grocer Company
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally a party cannot make evidence for himself by his own declarations, and it is a well-established general rule that a statement of a party, whether oral or written, which is of a self-serving nature is not admissible in evidence in his favor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Hulett“To prevail Ray must not only prove that he had such a contract, but he must also show that he performed it, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. McCargo
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.