State v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. · State v. Weleck · State v. Winne · State v. Begyn · State v. Plyler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]isconduct includes any act, any omission, in breach of duty of public concern by persons in public office provided it is done wilfully and dishonestly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hess v. Medlock“that his intentions were wholesome even though his methods were unorthodox.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hess v. Medlock
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.