Hellman v. Shoulters’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 236 - Brosnahan v. Brown (1982), 54 Cal. App. 333 - People v. Peete (1921)
3 federal appellate · 84 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Matter of the Estate Op Bernard NewMan · Ex parte Pollard · Taylor v. Palmer · Lent v. Tillson
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o say that every statute which thus affects the operation of another is therefore an amendment of it would introduce into the law an element of uncertainty which no one can estimate. It is impossible for the wisest legislator to know in advance how every statute proposed would affect the operation of existing laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the enactment of statutes in terms so blind that legislators themselves were sometimes deceived in regard to their effect'”
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.