Hale v. Badouh’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. S.S. · Cincinnati Life Insurance Co. v. Cates · Jones v. Strauss
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘beneficiary’ includes a person who would have been entitled, if the person had not made a disclaimer, to receive property as a result of the death of another person ... under a will....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Badouh v. Hale
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.