Jefferson County v. Hard’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1974
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"What we have written is not to be taken as an expression of opinion that the present system of distribution of this fund in equal parts to each of the sixty-seven counties, without regard to area, population, or road needs, is the most equitable that could be devised; ... What we do hold is that these are matters of legislative judgment and discretion; and the legislation before us is not so arbitrary, unjust, or capricious as to be violative of constitutional guaranties." Id. at 83.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sattler v. Askew
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.