Wright v. Hirsch’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Featherstone v. Norman (1930), Mayes v. Daniel (1938)
48 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 Ohio Tax Cases · Charles Cook v. County of Marshall · Diamond Match Company v. Village of Ontonagon · Hager v. Walker · State ex rel. Wyatt v. Ashbrook
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We should go at a snail's gait in declaring legislative enactments, and especially tax Acts, upon which the very life of the state depends, unconstitutional and void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“those transacting such business in specified or particular ways.””
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.