Donnell v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1965
5 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 Alabama & Florida R. R. v. Burkett · Van Dyke v. State · Bullard v. Lambert · Curtis v. Gaines · Walker v. Rogan
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This presents the question, whether this court can set aside its own judgment and decree, after adjournment of the term at which it was rendered. We think it can not do so, unless the judgment or decree which is sought to be set aside is void on its face. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamm v. Harrigan
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.