Snow v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Woodring v. Hall (1968), Cassel v. Mayor of Baltimore (1950)
58 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 Gorieb v. Fox · Pritz v. Messer · Sugar v. North Baltimore Methodist Protestant Church · Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. City of Columbus · Fitzgerald v. Merard Holding Co., Inc.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any municipal ordinance that is unreasonable will be held void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Humthlett v. Reeves
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.