Hunt v. Eddy’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Fadely (1957), Leek v. Theis (1975)
2 district · 65 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 Hawley v. City of Malden · Wheeler v. Weightman · State ex rel. Boynton v. Board of Education · Mills v. Porter · State ex rel. Coleman v. Kelly
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the polestar . . . is the intention of the makers and adopters.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The constitutionality of a statute is presumed, all doubts must be resolved in favor of its legality, and before it may be stricken down it must clearly appear the statute violates the constitution. “Judicial examination of any law enacted by the legislature proceeds on the assumption that it is valid unless it contravenes an express inhibition of the constitution or one necessarily implied from some express affirmative provision of that instrument, and an act of the legislature is not to be stricken down on the ground it is unconstitutional unless infringement of the superior law is clear beyond substantial doubt. “A statute will not be declared void for vagueness and uncertainty where it employs words commonly used, previously judicially defined, or have a settled meaning in law.” (Syl. ff 1, 2 and 5).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understanding. The people make them, the people adopt them, the people must be supposed to read them, with the help of common sense, and can not be presumed to admit in them any recondite meaning or any extraordinary gloss.’ . . .” (1 Story on the Const., 5th Ed., § 451.)”
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.