Hammond v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists (1973), Lloyd v. Board of Supervisors of Elections (2001)
2 district · 117 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 United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · Bridges v. Wixon · Alabama State Federation of Labor Local v. McAdory · Rescue Army v. Municipal Court of Los Angeles · Watson v. Buck
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a number of subordinate rules that tend to limit the scope of review”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the subject-matter is at all within the cognizance of a court of equity, as we conclude it is, if that court may be resorted to for prevention of a popular vote which would be void because based upon insufficient petitions, then, according to the settled practice, taxpayers interested in avoiding the waste of funds derived from taxation which would be involved in conducting the void referendum may make application to the court for the remedy.”
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.