Hall v. Blan’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 912 - Collins v. Riley (1944), Norton v. Lusk (1946)
80 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 Fergus v. Russel · Borden v. Louisiana State Board of Education · Brown v. Gay-Padgett Hdw. Co. · Hagan v. Commissioner's Court · 4 Smith & H. 222 - Peay v. Nolan
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"For more than half a century, we think it can be safely said, this section [§ 49] of the Constitution has been generally construed as fixing and withdrawing from legislative power, the matter of personal compensation and expense allowances to legislators while in attendance at legislative sessions. Such has been the widely prevailing construction of similar constitutional provisions in other states."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] taxpayer may maintain a suit to enjoin the state treasurer from diverting public funds, or disbursing same for unlawful purposes. He has a direct interest in seeing that taxes paid are devoted to the ends provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... four dollars per day, and ten cents per mile in going to and returning from the seat of government, to be computed by the nearest usual route traveled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.