Hamlett v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1977
10 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Words purporting to give authority to three, or more public officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such . officers .or other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Traylor v. Cummins
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.