Hill v. Baylor’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2002
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is scarcely necessary to say, that objections to the admissibility of evidence not taken below, and which, if taken, might have been obviated at the trial, cannot be first urged in this court, as a ground for reversing the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The sheriff's return upon the writ shows that publication had been made for four successive weeks. The return does not appear to have been made until after the expiration of four weeks; that was after the first day of the term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Reitz
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.