In Re Herman’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably 42 Cal. 2d 816 - Gross v. Superior Court (1954), Great Southern Media, Inc. v. McDowell County (1981)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 In re Organization & of the Bonds of the Central Irrigation District · In Re Sanitary Bd. of E. Fruitvale Sanitary Dist. · Morton v. Broderick · People v. Bank of San Luis Obispo · Conant v. Conant
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the term, 'a newspaper of general circulation', the legislature had in view publications to which the general public would resort in order to be informed of the news and intelligence of the day, editorial opinion, and advertisements, and thereby to render it probable that the 'notices or official advertising' would be brought to the attention of the general public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character”
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.