Pillans v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Alabama State Bridge Corporation v. Smith (1928), Woco Pep Co. of Montgomery v. City of Montgomery (1925)
40 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'n · Allgood v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. · State ex rel. Terry v. Lanier · Thomas v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the title is so misleading and uncertain that the average legislator or person reading the same would not be informed of the purpose of the enactment, it is insufficient.”
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.