Hull v. Baumann’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably Walters v. City of St. Louis (1953), State Ex Rel. Fire Dist. of Lemay v. Smith (1945)
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 Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · State ex inf. Hadley v. Standard Oil Co. · State Ex Inf. Atty. Gen. v. Hedrick · City of Springfield v. Smith · Andrus v. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance
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 basis of sound legislative classification is similarity of situation or condition with respect to the feature which renders the law appropriate and applicable. A law may not include less than all who are similarly situated. If it does, it is special, and therefore invalid, because it omits a part of those which in the nature of things the reason of the law includes.’ State ex inf. Barrett v. Hedrick, 294 Mo. 21 , 241 S. W. 402 , loc. cit. 420.””
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.