Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
301 U.S. 459 · 1937
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably McLaughlin v. Florida (1964), Trimble v. Gordon (1977)
7 federal appellate · 7 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Louisville Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman · Borden's Farm Products Co. v. Baldwin
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be said generally that the equal protection clause means that the rights of all persons must rest upon the same rule under similar circumstances, and that it applies to the exercise of all the powers of the state which can affect the individual or his property * * *. * * * * * * "Discriminations are not to be supported by mere fanciful conjecture. They cannot stand as reasonable if they offend the plain standards of common sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cantrell“`That is to say, mere difference is not enough; the attempted classification "must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““the equal protection clause means that the rights of all persons must rest upon the same rule under similar circumstances ... and that it applies to the exercise of all the powers of the state which can affect the individual or his property, including the power of taxation....””
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.