Hill v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2006
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Baird v. Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. · Lambert v. Home Federal Savings and Loan Assoc. · Tennessee Asphalt Co. v. Purcell Enterprises, Inc. · Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. v. SERVICE MERCHANDISE CO. INC.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are not convinced that substantial performance of a contract for'the sale of real estate will entitle the vendee to specific performance of that agreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morrow v. Jones“waiver is the voluntary relinquishment of a known right and is established by express declarations or acts manifesting an intent not to claim the right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patton v. Bearden
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.