Hughes v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1980 · most notably Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. Watkins (1902), Knoefel v. Atkins (1907)
36 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 Barber Asphalt Paving Co. v. Edgerton · Sims v. Hines · Robinson v. City of Valparaiso
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is first contended that the common council of the .city of Greenfield never acquired jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the improvement or of the persons of the property owners as assessed therefor, for the reason that no resolution of necessity was ever passed, or notice thereof given, as required by Section 2 of the Barrett law (Acts 1889, p. 237), Section 4289, Burns’ R. S. 1894. It must be admitted that the proceedings of the council in this matter were irregular. The resolution of necessity should have been adopted, and notice thereof given as provided in the statute. But it has been repeatedly held that such resolution and notice are not essential to give jurisdiction to the council, provided only that notice and a hearing are given to the property owners before the making of the final assessments. This notice and hearing were had in the case at bar.””
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.