Hawkins v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably State Ex Rel. Fire Dist. of Lemay v. Smith (1945), Stiffelman v. Abrams (1983)
30 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 Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Holden v. Hardy · Consolidated Coal Company of St Louis v. People of the State of Illinois · Minnesota Iron Co. v. Kline
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature in the exercise of its power to classify is not required to trace with a hair line the boundaries of the class to which the resulting enactment shall apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blind v. Brockman
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.