In Re Hartmann’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1977 · most notably Martin v. City of Struthers (1943), Rowe v. City of Pocatello (1950)
22 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 Sligh v. James a Kirkwood · Ex parte Haskell · In re Flaherty · 120 Cal. App. 525 - E. A. Hoffman Candy Co. v. City of Newport Beach · 68 Cal. App. 744 - In Re Robinson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been uniformly held that while legislative authority may not arbitrarily interfere with private affairs by imposing unusual and unnecessary restrictions upon a lawful business, yet a considerable latitude of discretion must be accorded to the law making power, and . if the regulation operates uniformly upon all persons similarly situated and it is not shown that it is clearly unreasonable and arbitrary, it cannot be judicially declared to be in contravention of constitutional right. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We may not assume the chief of police will arbitrarily refuse to grant permits to canvass for subscriptions without good cause. The presumption is that every officer will perform his full duty in a fair and lawful manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Duffy
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.