Hess v. Mullaney’s Empirical Analysis
213 F.2d 635 · 1954
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2001 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest (1971), Abbott v. Parker (1971)
19 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Carmichael v. Southern Coal & Coke Co. · Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · Madden v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Walters v. City of St. Louis · Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o requirements of uniformity or of equal protection of the law limit the power of a legislature in respect to allocation and distribution of public funds.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“first collected into its treasury all the proceeds of the tax from all sources and then appropriated amounts equal to those collected from the municipalities and districts to such entities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which is not shown to be the result of intentional or systematic undervaluation of some but not all of the taxed property in a single class.”
1 later decision 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.