Hammond v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.2d 23 · 1942
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 17 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently October 1989 · most notably State v. Butler (1958), Association of American Medical Colleges v. Califano (1977)
72 federal appellate · 17 district · 11 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Spalding v. Vilas · Wilbur v. United States ex rel. Kadrie · Goldsmith v. United States Board of Tax Appeals
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hen the performance of an official duty requires an interpretation of the law which governs that performance, the interpretation placed by the officer on the law will not be interfered with, certainly, unless it is clearly wrong and the official action arbitrary and capricious.”
9 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.