Hopper v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1999
16 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 District of Columbia v. Hutton · Bouse v. Hull · State v. Clifton · Leitch v. Gaither · Maxwell v. Board of Commissioners
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * But, since the Legislature has failed to appropriate for the salary of the appellant, it is unnecessary in this case to determine the validity or the scope of the amendment. It has been repeatedly held that a Veterans’ Preference Act can not circumscribe the right of municipal officials to abolish a position whenever they consider that such action is necessary for the public welfare, even though a veteran may be ousted thereby, provided that there is no evi dence of bad faith or subterfuge to defeat the statutory preference. Maxwell v. City of Wildwood, 111 N.J.L. 181 , 168 A. 143 ; Owen v. City of Detroit, 259 Mich. 176 , 242 N. W. 878 .” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our conclusion is that since the Legislature has discontinued the appropriation for an annual salary of $1500 for an industrial accident investigator, and the appellant was the only investigator receiving that salary, he lost his position by operation of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.