Hall v. Wisconsin’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 5 · 1880
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 18 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Metcalf & Eddy v. Mitchell (1926), Dodge v. Board of Education (1937)
28 federal appellate · 18 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward · Davis v. Gray · Gilman v. Philadelphia · Newton v. Commissioners
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“make a written contract with each of the commissioners ... expressly stipulating and setting forth the nature and extent of the services to be rendered by each, and the compensation therefor ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a State descends from the plane of its sovereignty, and contracts with private persons, it is regarded pro hac vice as a private person itself, and is bound accordingly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But when the legislature makes a contract with a public officer, as in the case of a stipulated salary for his services during a limited period, this, during the limited period, is just as much a contract, within the purview of the constitutional prohibition, as a like contract would be between two private citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.