State v. Hillman’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
4 district · 149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Schmidt v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, CITY OF NEWARK (1952), Builders Service Corp. v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1988)
4 district · 149 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Hadacheck v. Sebastian · Nectow v. City of Cambridge · Zahn v. Board of Public Works
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be designed to lessen congestion in the streets.”
2 later decisions 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.