Hill v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1956 · most notably Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky v. Limestone County (1929), Dixie Coaches, Inc. v. Ramsden (1939)
25 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 Askew v. Hale County · Board of Revenue v. Merrill · Kennamer v. State · State ex rel. City of Mobile v. Board of R. & R. Com. · Mills v. Court of Com'rs
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The lawmakers are free to create classes upon whom the taxing power may be laid, and the only uniformity requisite is that subjects of the same class are made to bear, equally and uniformly, the burden imposed.””
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.