Hartwick v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Ghegan & Ghegan, Inc. v. Weiss (1999), Daniel v. Jones (1998)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Samples v. Grady · 9 Cal. App. 2d 510 - Pomona City School District v. Payne · MacKey v. McDonald · Miles v. Gordon · Mears v. Little Rock School District
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The city may have been acting in the utmost good faith — nevertheless, it tried to appropriate monies arising from taxes for purposes other than the objective which caused the citizens to approve the bond issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oldner v. Villines
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.