Hatfield v. McCluney’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2013
18 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 Roberts v. United States Jaycees · Lester v. Sayles · Brownstein v. Rhomberg-Haglin & Associates, Inc. · Sugent v. Estate of Arnold · State ex rel. Eagleton v. Patrick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless otherwise barred by law, all claims against the estate of a deceased person ... whether due or to become due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliq-uidated, founded on contract or otherwise, which are not filed in the probated division, or are not paid by the personal representative, shall become unenforceable and shall be forever barred against the estate, the personal representative, the heirs, de-visees and legatees of the decedent one year following the date of the decedent’s death, whether or not administration of the decedent’s estate is had or commenced within such one-year period and whether or not during such period a claimant has been given any notice, actual or constructive, of the decedent’s death or of the need to file a claim in any court.”
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.