Flynn v. Horst’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Schubach v. Silver (1975), Bilbar Construction Co. v. Easttown Township Board of Adjustment (1958)
69 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 United States v. Carolene Products Co. · City of Knoxville v. Knoxville Water Co. · Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations · Chastleton Corporation v. Sinclair · White's Appeal
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reasonableness of ‘a police regulation’ of any business depends chiefly on the circumstances on which the regulation operates. No police regulation should be allowed to ‘interfere with the enjoyment of individual rights beyond the necessities of the case’: Reduction Company v. Sanitary Works, 199 U. S. 306, 318 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If anything can be considered as settled under the decisions of our Pennsylvania courts it is that municipalities under the guise of a police regulation cannot impose a revenue tax.””
2 later decisions 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.