State Consolidated Publishing Co. v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2011
12 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 Richie v. Philadelphia · Winsor v. Hunt · Houseman v. Commonwealth ex rel. Tener · 79 Cal. App. 139 - Walker v. Rich · Heilig v. City Council of Puyallup
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Because of the nature of the office and the well-known duties thereof, the omission to state or define them in the charter or ordinances, we think, is unimportant. It is a matter of common knowledge that the city attorney is the head of the legal department of the city. He stands to his city what the Attorney General stands to the state or the county attorney to the county. Generally his duties require him to represent the city in its litigation and to give legal advice to the heads of departments. ... As such legal adviser, one of his principal duties, it is obvious, was to assist the other officers of the city in preserving and safekeeping its funds, and to institute proceedings for their recovery when unlawfully diverted, paid out, or embezzled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Juliani v. Darrow““The Legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered or the contract entered into, nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]very public officer in the State of Arizona, holding an elective office . . . is subject to recall.”
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.