Hutto v. Walker County’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 1963 · most notably Newton v. City of Tuscaloosa (1948), Gulf States Steel Co. v. Christison (1934)
42 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 Wilson v. Duncan · Jeffersonian Publishing Co. v. Hilliard · Plowman v. Henderson · Ex parte Thompson · Beason v. Shaw
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a rule, the adoption of a statute by reference is construed as an adoption of the law as it existed at the time the adopting statute was passed, and therefore is not affected by any subsequent modification or repeal of the statute adopted.””
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.