Hill v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
259 U.S. 44 · 1922
Citation profile
238 federal appellate · 91 district · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 821 later decisions (131 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937)
238 federal appellate · 91 district · 91 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · Swift Company v. United States · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co.
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 821 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extraordinary and entirely exceptional circumstances”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 11 does not intend the court to dissect an unconstitutional measure and reframe a valid one out of it by inserting limitations it does not contain. This is legislative work beyond the power and function of the court . . . “It (severability clause) does not give the court power to amend the act.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That if any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.””
3 later decisions 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.