State v. . Hay’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1959
14 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Durham v. Cotton Mills. · Morgan v. . Stewart · Sutton v. . Phillips · Morris v. City of Columbus
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Salus populi suprema lex, — the public welfare is the highest law — is the foundation principle of all civil government’ . . . There is an implied assent on the part of every member of society that his own individual welfare shall, in cases of necessity, yield to that of the community; and that his property, liberty, and life shall, under certain circumstances, be placed in jeopardy, or even sacrificed, for the public good.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrett v. Faubus
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.