Ex parte Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1990
13 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 Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Not every law which operates prejudicial to an individual, can be said to be criminal, or punitive, and if retrospective, therefore, “ex post facto.” For then every tax law would be punitive, for they would, in that sense, punish the tax payer by the amount extorted. So the authorizing a toll bridge by the side of an established ferry, which would injure the owner of the ferry, by the amount of tolls withdrawn by the greater facilities of the bridge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haddad v. Caryl
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.