Hardesty v. Taft’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2000
1 federal appellate · 12 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The laws having been codified under former enactments, the Constitution contemplates the continuance of the system, and to save time, labor and expense, the duty is imposed upon the Legislature, in amending existing laws, or enacting public general laws, to observe certain forms, to adapt them to the Code arrangement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (2000)
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.