Hobbs v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis
280 U.S. 168 · 1929
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1973 · most notably Turner v. Fouche (1970), Ex parte Bransford (1940)
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 Workman v. Boone · In Re Buder et al · Smith v. Wilson · Moore v. Fidelity & Deposit 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judge was clearly right in treating the plaintiffs in the several cases as masters to decide what they would ask and in denying to the defendants, the petitioners, the power to force upon the plaintiffs a constitutional issue which at that moment they did not care to raise. The fact that the bills raised it did not prevent them from presenting a narrower claim and contenting themselves with the gx-anting of that.””
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.