Bibb County v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Gilbert v. Richardson (1994), McNeal v. Culver (1961)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Betts v. Brady · Eilenbecker v. District Court of Plymouth County · Gaines v. State of Washington · Plumb v. Christie
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An exception to the general rule that the use of plain and unequivocal language in a legislative enactment obviates any necessity for judicial construction is presented by the use of words the meaning of which in general acceptation is apparently obvious, and yet the purpose of the legislature would be defeated were the words employed construed literally. [Cits.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. State“Neither counties nor municipal corporations stand in the same position as individuals or private corporations, and as against the State they do not own the taxes collected by them and public property held by them as if it were private property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Davidson“the words of a statute are always to be construed in connection with their context, and the intention of the legislature is to be gathered from the statute as a whole so as to give effect to all of its parts, if possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Rm
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.