Hill v. Hartzell’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
May 1949
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rodgers v. United States · Crane v. Reeder · Marsden v. Harlocker · State v. Port of Tillamook · State ex rel. Weber v. Tucker
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Courts ought to be, and are, very reluctant to interfere with the will of the people as expressed at an election, but cannot validate an election of this character wherein there has been a total failure to follow the plain and explicit mandate of the statute as specifically pointed out by this court in Briggs v. Stevens, supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Witham v. McNutt
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.