Hines v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2025
12 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 Waller v. Harris · Fernwood Mining Co. v. Pluna · Parker v. Wilson · Phillips County v. Pillow
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the natural and most obvious import of the language without resorting to subtle and forced constructions for the purpose of either limiting or extending their operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the context requires that it be done to effectuate the manifest intention of the Legislature or where not to do so would render the meaning ambiguous or result in an absurdity.”
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.