Hoyne v. Danisch’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Uphoff v. Industrial Board (1915), Anderson v. City of Park Ridge (1947)
1 federal appellate · 62 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 Cruse v. Aden · People ex rel. Akin v. Kipley · County of Cook v. Healy · Hogan v. Akin · Krome v. Halbert
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing a statute the courts are not confined to the literal meaning of the words. A thing within the intention is regarded within the statute though not within the letter. A thing within the letter is not within the statute if not within the intention. When the intention can be collected from the statute, words may be modified or .altered so as to obviate all inconsistency with such intention.””
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.