Hyatt v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 1995
18 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 Forest Hill Corp. v. Latter & Blum, Inc. · Sieben v. Torrey · Bush v. Greer · Heartsill v. Thompson · Pace v. Wainwright
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of this court to indulge all reasonable presumptions in favor of the trial court’s conclusions when the evidence is heard ore tenus. We cannot substitute our judgment on the effect of the evidence, dealing with the pivotal issue of fact in this cause, for that of the Chancellor. * * *” —Hyatt v. Compton, 262 Ala. 649, 652 , 80 So.2d 650, 653 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Templeton v. Hickman““Any conveyance of realty, of which a material part of the consideration is the agreement of the grantee to support the grantor during life, is void at the-option of the grantor, except as to bona, fide purchasers for value, lienees, and mortgagees without notice, if, during-the life of the grantor he takes proceedings in equity to annul such conveyance.””
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.