Hart v. Backstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably City of Jackson v. Deposit Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. (1931), 716 So. 2d 645 - Pro-Choice Mississippi v. Fordice (1998)
27 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Ex parte Pollard · State v. Rogers · People ex rel. Breckon v. Board of Election Commissioners · Blakemore v. Dolan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title only, but the section or sections, as amended or revived, shall be inserted at length.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If, upon offering the land of . any delinquent taxpayer, constituting one tract, no person will bid for it the whole amount of the taxes and all costs, the collector shall strike off the same to the state, and he shall, on or before the first Monday of May thereafter, transmit to the land commissioner a certified list of the lands struck off by him to the state, specifying the day of sale and the amount of taxes for which the sale was made, and each item of cost incident thereto.” ■”
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.