In re Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1979
15 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 Mercein v. People ex rel. Barry · Weir v. Marley · Dubois v. Johnson · State ex rel. Lembke v. Bechdel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a careful examination of the authorities, we are inclined to the opinion that, in cases of this character, where the controversy arises over the custody of a child, the real issue is one between private parties contesting a question of private right, under the form of habeas corpus proceedings, in which there arises no question of personal liberty, and in consequence all matters in issue arising upon the same state of facts determined in the prior proceeding should be regarded as settled and concluded.” (Page 756.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bleakley v. Smart
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.