State v. Hurlock’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1975
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 Bush v. Martineau · Davies v. Hot Springs · Lybrand v. Wafford (1) · Williams v. State · Moore v. Alexander
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.
““This court has frequently held that, when a statute is unconstitutional in part, the valid portion of an act will be sustained if complete in itself, and capable of being executed in accordance with the apparent legislative intent.’’ (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Byrd““It is true that the police power can only be exercised to suppress, restrain, or regulate the liberty of individual action, when such action is injurious to the public welfare.””
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.