State v. Hardman’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1994
8 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 Sage v. State · Wright v. Board of Commissioners · State v. Wells · Commonwealth v. Sherman · State v. Mason
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““General saving statutes such as this [The 1877 provision above-quoted] are by law imported into the subsequent repealing acts and obviate the necessity for individual saving clauses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wardlow v. State
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.