Humphrey v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Moore · State v. Sloan · Belote v. Coffman · Hudson v. Higgins
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only in those cases where the discrepancy between an expressed objective and actuality is so great that no reasonable person would believe that the purported purpose was a necessary expense of government that the courts will intervene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Woodruff
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.