People ex rel. Hoffman v. Hecht’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2014
1 district · 20 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 State v. Carroll · Saunders v. Haynes · City of Oakland v. Carpentier · People v. Hoge · Crawford v. Dunbar
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a majority possesses all the authority of the whole, then such majority must be competent to its exercise. For all practical purposes the majority becomes the full board. It is the receptacle — the reservoir — of all the authority conferred upon the whole, and its action, it is submitted, cannot be stayed by the nonaction, failure to qualify, absence, death, or want of eligibility of the minority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“1. The 13 [board members], constituting as they do a majority of all the members of the board, were competent to organize and act as a board ... under the constitution and law, and may lawfully prepare and propose a charter for the city and county of San Francisco.”
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.