Hatt v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2010
4 federal appellate · 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 Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Ass'n v. Stovall · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Washington · Colorado &. S. Ry. Co. v. Rowe · Roth v. Travelers' Protective Assn. of America · Kalteyer v. Mitchell
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.
“a matter of fact of which courts will take judicial notice that the existence of or the duration of the existence of petroleum within the limits of a particular tract of land is uncertain.”
2 later decisions 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.