Hendrickson v. Apperson’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 105 · 1917
Citation profile
3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1981 · most notably Town of Boynton Beach v. State of Florida (1933), County of San Bernardino v. Way (1941)
3 district · 31 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHendrickson v. Apperson (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sturges v. Crowninshield · Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Bronson v. Kinzie · Morley v. Lake Shore M S Ry Co · Rees v. City of Watertown
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is here something more than provision for the ordinary and orderly readjustment of administrative matters evidently intended to facilitate public business. Actual conditions cannot be ignored, and certainly we ought not, through assumptions out of harmony with patent facts and over-nice refinements, to facilitate the practical destruction of admitted legal obligations.””
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.