State v. Hurliman’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1996 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), State v. Chetcuti (1977)
2 district · 42 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Soon Hing v. Crowley · International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Silver v. Silver · Lyman v. Adorno
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute, as its title and history indicate, is to secure a fitting observance of Sunday both as a day for religious worship and as a day for rest and recreation.” State v. Hurliman, 143 Conn. 502, 507 , 123 A.2d 767, 769 (1956).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moss v. Hornig“It is apparent that the remaining exemptions do not affect the business of the respondents. In any event, such exemptions cannot be said to result in discrimination against them or a denial of the equal protection of the laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"It is fundamental that no one will be heard to question the constitutionality of a statute unless he is adversely affected by it." State v. Hurliman, 143 Conn., 502 , 123 A.2d 767 (1956).”
1 later decision 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.