Hanson v. Williams County’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Shover v. Cordis Corp. (1991), Harris v. Black Clawson Co. (1992)
4 federal appellate · 48 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 Parratt v. Taylor · Roe v. Wade · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No special privileges or immunities shall ever be granted which may not be altered, revoked or repealed by the legislative assembly; nor shall any citizen or class of citizens be granted privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not be granted to all citizens.”
23 later decisions 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.