Hill v. Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Ballance (1949), Bulova Watch Co. v. Brand Distributors of North Wilkesboro, Inc. (1974)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Union Pac Ry Co v. Chicago R I P Ry Co Union Pac Ry Co · Douglass v. County of Pike · Kent v. . Quicksilver Mining Co. · St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad v. Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad · Louisiana v. Pilsbury
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore essential to the validity of their acts that they (directors) should be assembled in their representative capacity, as they are not permitted to discharge any of their duties unless thus organized into a deliberative meeting, though they may all have personally and individually given their assent to any proposed Corporate action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bernard v. Lea“rights have become vested which will be seriously impaired if the rule thus established is reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.