Hill v. Buckholts’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1946
14 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 St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Hardy, District Judge · Corrugated Culvert Co. v. Simpson Tp., McIntosh Cty. · Prince v. Gosnell · Woodworth, County Clerk v. Town of Hennessey · Clearspring Township v. Blough
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.
““Provided that no marriage contract in writing has been entered into between the parties: no man while married shall bequeath more than two-thirds of his property away from his wife, nor shall any woman while married bequeath more than two-thirds of her property away from her husband. * * * ””
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.