Hines v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
298 U.S. 94 · 1936
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017 · most notably Hines v. Lowrey (1938), Busby v. Electric Utilities Employees Union (1944)
40 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 Calhoun v. Massie
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““During many years, Congress has recognized the propriety, if not the necessity, of entrusting the custody and management of funds belonging to incompetent pensioners to fiduciaries appointed by state courts, without seeking to limit judicial power in respect to them.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing brought to our attention would justify the view that Congress intended to deprive state courts of their usual authority over fiduciaries, or to sanction the promulgation of rules to that end by executive officers or bureaus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hines v. Lowrey
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.