Hurley v. Eidson’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2012
12 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 Sundry Goods Wares and Merchandises v. The United States · Holder v. Elms Hotel Co. · People Ex Rel. Municipal Gas Co. v. Rice · Boyles v. McMurphy · State Ex Rel. Stinger v. Kruger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the title of an act is essentially a part of the act and is itself a legislative expression of the general scope of the bill, it may be looked to as an aid in arriving at the intent of the legislature.”
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.