Hamilton v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1980
4 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 Chace v. Gregg · Larrabee v. Porter · Clark, Admr. v. Gauntt · Lammers v. Greulich · Sample v. Butler University
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(3) That William B. Hamilton is to have and take all of the lands aggregating approximately 746 acres situated in Dallas County, Texas, together with all improvements thereon, free and clear of all claims, rights and demands upon the part of the said Norman Hamilton." (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Hamilton“made a unanimous clerical error in answering Special Issue No. 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Hamilton
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.