Hadley's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Schubach v. Silver (1975), Bilbar Construction Co. v. Easttown Township Board of Adjustment (1958)
98 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 Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority · Retirement Board v. McGovern · Dornan v. Philadelphia Housing Authority · Commonwealth v. Stofchek · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Schnader v. Liveright
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the framers of the Constitution in placing limitations upon legislative interference with the compensation received by a public officer for the duties normally incident to the office was to eliminate political or partisan pressure upon the incumbents of office after they had been elected or appointed: 8 Deb. Pa. Const. 332, 333.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Nor can it be said that the Act of 1937 violated Article III, section 13, which prohibits the increase or diminution of the salary or emoluments of a public officer after his election or appointment. The designation of the city or county treasurer by the legislature as agent of the Commonwealth for the collection of certain taxes and fees is not the creation of a public office within the meaning of Article III, section 13, but is merely the establishment of an agency which the legislature may at any time modify or revoke.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that he who asks to have a law declared unconstitutional takes upon himself the burden of proving beyond all doubt that it is so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.