Hawkins v. Bleakly’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 210 · 1917
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 (1937), Truax v. Corrigan (1921)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 99 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Frank v. Mangum · New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · John Hendrick v. State of Maryland · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · People of the State of New York Ex Rel Albert Hatch v. Edward Reardon a
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot say that there is here an arbitrary classification within the inhibition of the ‘equal protection’ clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ... As already shown, the abolition of such defenses is within the power of the state, and the legislation cannot be condemned when that power has been qualifiedly exercised without unreasonable discrimination. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * the establishment of presumptions, and of rules respecting the burden of proof, is clearly within the domain of the state governments, and that a provision of this character, not unreasonable in itself and not conclusive of the rights of the party, does not constitute a denial of due process of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Casey v. Hansen“on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.