Pointer v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Cate v. Archon Oil Co., Inc. (1985), Harry R. Carlile Trust v. Cotton Petroleum Corp. (1986)
33 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 Brown Investment Company v. Hickox · Davis v. Sandlin · Jones v. Major · Loftis v. LaSalle
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[JJurisdiction is an issue which is primary and fundamental in every case, and must be inquired into and answered by this court, both as to its own jurisdiction as well as to the jurisdiction of the court from which the appeal is taken, whether raised by any party or not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In civil cases it is a well recognized rule that questions not advanced on the original hearing will not be considered on petition for rehearing except in unusual circumstances, or where fundamental or jurisdictional error is involved.”
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.