Hamilton v. Linn’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Heins Implement Co. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission (1993), Clark v. Olson (1987)
71 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 Savings Trust Co. of St. Louis v. Skain · State Ex Rel. City of St. Louis v. Baumann · Overcash v. Yellow Transit Co. · Hernandez v. Prieto · Haarstick v. Gabriel
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In this kind of a situation, a speaking demurrer might well be an aid to prompt and efficient administration of justice, resulting in avoidance of expense and delay, by making it possible to decide at once an issue that would dispose of a lawsuit, actually barred or groundless on uncontrovert-ed facts; and our new proposed code provides for' such a procedural improvement. * * * ””
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.