Harbold v. Reading’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2009
14 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · City of Trenton v. New Jersey · Williams v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Same · New Orleans v. Clark · Sharpless v. Mayor of Philadelphia
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjince, in fact, the contractor was to receive payment only from the abutting property owners, could the legislature, by its mere fíat, subsequently impose upon the city an absolute liability purely for the private benefit of the contractor or those to whom the bonds originally issued to the contractor had been assigned?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No hill shall be passed giving any extra compensation to any public . . . employe . . . after . . . contract made . . .””
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.