Hunton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Hale v. Iowa State Board of Assessment and Review (1937), Weber v. County of Santa Barbara (1940)
28 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 Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad · Brown v. Maryland · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. · Welton v. The State of Missouri · Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Driscoll v. Corbett
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.