Hill v. Town’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1977
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 Star Line of Steamers v. Van Vliet · Ellsworth Woolen Manufacturing Co. v. Faunce
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A majority of the directors of every manufacturing or mercantile corporation convened according to the by-laws,- shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and the stockholders holding a majority of the stock at any meeting of the stockholders shall be capable of transacting the business of that meeting, except as herein otherwise provided.” * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Orloff v. Stott
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.