Matter of Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Marriage of Elliott v. Elliott (1990), Matter of Estate of Foster (1985)
29 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 United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. · Galvan v. Miller · Krupiak v. Payton · Mora v. Martinez · Jesko v. Stauffer Chemical Company
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The personal representative at any time may pay any just claim which has not been barred, with or without formal presentation, but the personal representative is personally liable to any other claimant whose claim is allowed and who is injured by such payment if (1) the payment was made before the expiration of [four months from the date of the first publication of the notice to creditors] ....”
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.