Sperry Hutchinson Company v.’s Empirical Analysis
220 U.S. 502 · 1911
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), Califano v. Webster (1977)
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 128 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Field v. Clark · Lawton v. Steele · United States v. Grimaud · Williamson v. United States
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 14th Amendment does not forbid statutes and statutory changes to have a beginning, and thus to discriminate between the rights of an earlier and later time.”
5 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.