Hazelrigg v. Hazelrigg’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1964
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.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Penitentiary Commissioners v. Spencer · Commonwealth v. Barney · Commonwealth v. Goldburg · Board of Education v. Sea · Hickman v. Kimbley
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is a well-settled rule of constitutional construction that contemporaneous legislative constructions are not binding upon the courts, and will not be adhered to if inconsistent with the plain meaning and intention of a constitutional provision, they are nevertheless entitled to some weight, and should not be' departed from unless clearly erroneous, especially when they are of long standing and have been adopted and followed for many years in the administration of the law. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * it is no doubt true, that this provision of the Constitution was inserted for the purpose of giving to any county in the state the right to choose whether the members of its fiscal court should be selected as representatives of particular districts, or of the county at large; that is, whether or not it should have district magistrates or county at large commissioners. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billiter v. Nelson
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.