Hilton v. McNitt’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 15 Cal. 3d 623 - Bank of California v. Carter (1975), 65 Cal. 2d 657 - Palmer v. Gregg (1967)
74 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 125 Cal. App. 2d 419 - Taliaferro v. Taliaferro · In Re Estate of Bell · 110 Cal. App. 2d 203 - Estate of Girard
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as otherwise agreed by the parties in writing, the obligation of any party in any decree, judgment or order for the support and maintenance of the other party shall terminate upon the death of the obligor or upon the remarriage of the other party. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]nly after an order for payment is the executor obliged to pay any general claim against the estate. ... It follows, therefore, that plaintiff is entitled to interest at the statutory rate on the amount owed at the time of decedent's death only after the executor has been ordered to pay her claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Adams
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.