Hackmeyer v. Hackmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1999
6 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 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Watford · Shipman v. Furniss · Dorsey v. Dorsey · Ford v. . Harrington · Bell v. Tennessee Coal, Iron R. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . . We have held in a case in equity where the testimony was before the trial court without a jury that if a witness swore a wilful falsehood as to a material fact, it was open to the trial court to find and believe that the testimony of such witness as to other material facts was not worthy of credence. Spring Park Ass'n v. Rosedale Park Amusement Co., 216 Ala. 549 , 114 So. 43 .. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. Rucker“Suppression of a material fact which the party is under an obligation to communicate constitutes fraud. The obligation to communicate may arise from the confidential relations of the parties or from the particular circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.