Hamlin County v. Clark County’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2024
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 Miller v. Inhabitants of Somerset · Mitchell v. Inhabitants of Cornville · City of Augusta v. Inhabitants of Chelsea · Kellogg v. Inhabitants of St. George · Ives v. Wallingford
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duty of supporting the poor, aiding poor people, or those temporarily requiring assistance, may be imposed by the legislature upon counties or towns in such manner as it may deem expedient. There is no question of moral obligation involved.... It is simply a question of public policy, and, being such, is entirely within the control of the legislature.”
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.