Hamilton v. Slover’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably Overton v. United States (1980), Winters v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. (1977)
7 federal appellate · 27 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 Wendorff v. Missouri State Life Insurance · Faught Ex Rel. Faught v. Washam · Buehler v. Festus Mercantile Co. · National Rejectors, Inc. v. Trieman · Yarrington v. Thornburg
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is more just that the windfall should inure to the benefit of the injured party than that it should accrue to the tort feasor.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The collateral source doctrine is predicated upon the theory that a tortfeasor has no interest in, and therefore no right to benefit from, monies received by the injured person from sources unconnected with the defendant. The doctrine, however, does permit the tortfeasor to obtain the advantage of payments made by himself or from a fund created by him * * ” Id. 958 (Emphasis supplied).”
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.