Barnes v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1959
16 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 Shoemaker v. United States · State Ex Rel. Edwards v. Millar · Varner v. Martin · State Ex Rel. Manhattan Const. Co. v. Barnes
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.
““Any incorporated city or town in this state may, by a majority of the qualified property taxpaying voters of such city or town, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, be allowed to become indebted in a larger amount than that specified in section 26, for the purpose of purchasing or constructing ‘public utilities’, or for repairing the same, to be owned exclusively by such city.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A public park is a public utility within the meaning of that term as used in section 27 of article 10 of the Constitution.””
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.