Hines v. Etheridge’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2008
14 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 Commissioners of Laramie County v. Commissioners of Albany County · Butts County v. Jackson Banking Co. · Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Wright · Caldwell v. Barrett · Coleman v. Board of Education
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general proposition, ... the legislature can not ... diminish the jurisdiction of courts established by the constitution of this [s]tate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.