Hesse v. Rath’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Arverne Bay Construction Co. v. Thatcher (1938), Alabama Mills, Inc. v. Smith (1939)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n v. Mayor of New York
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Aviation is today an established method of transportation. The future, even the near future, will make it still more general. The city that is without the foresight to build the ports for the new traffic may soon be left behind in the race of competition.”
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.