Hamilton v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1918
5 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 Currie v. Stewart · Washington v. McCaughan · Cohea v. State
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.
“. “The rule inyoked is subject to this qualification: If the fraud is well charged, so as to make a case.for equitable relief, the bill cannot be dismissed on a demur.rer. But if the fraud charged is not of such character, or has not been committed .under such circumstances as to entitle the complainant to equitable relief in regard to it, then a demurrer is proper.””
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.