Hutton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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.
Relationships
Relies on State Ex Rel. Barney v. Hawkins · Kirby v. Nolte · State Ex Rel. Nagle v. Page · Application of Milwaukee Chapter, Izaak Walton League of America
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.
“In this case most of the essential elements of a public office are present. The focal question is whether or not the statutes delegate to the [person in question] sovereign powers, to be exercised by him, independently, for the benefit of the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pinckney
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.