Wolf v. Hope’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1980
21 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 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. v. Lee · Beach v. Peabody · County of Cook v. Sennott · Bergen v. Riggs
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our judgment the provision quoted from section 11 of article 9 of the constitution was intended to include all officers not specifically mentioned in other provisions- of the constitution, occupying offices created by the laws of the State in and for any of the political subdivisions of the State * * *.””
2 later decisions 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.