Hunter v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 1972
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scott v. Carnes · Smith v. Olin Industries, Inc. · Stricklin v. Mitchell · Connelly v. State · Little v. Holt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ This court has held in a long line of cases that while chancery cases are tried de novo in this court, a decree of the chancery court will not be reversed where there is a disputed question of fact unless the findings are clearly against the preponderance of the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Teague
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.