Hill v. Tarver’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2003
1 district · 19 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 Ex parte Smith · Ex parte Greene · Smith v. Speed · Joiner v. Winston · Ex parte Hamilton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the constitutional inquiry relates to the legality of the court which assumes to act — -involving its power to act in any case — it is unnecessary to object preliminarily to its exercise of jurisdiction. In the very nature of things it could not determine the question of its own power to act or exist as a court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Steele
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.