Hart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2005
24 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 Sawyer v. State of Florida · State v. Gleason · Stone v. State · Holton v. State · Hogan v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * We think that in the interests of the State, and without depriving any defendant of any right to which he might be entitled, such suspicion should not be cast upon the executive orders of the Governor in this fashion, but that if the power and authority of an assigned state attorney is to be tested, it should be done in direct proceedings by quo warranto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.