Hodges v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1972
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 The State of Pennsylvania v. The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Company et al. · City of New Orleans v. New Orleans Water-Works Co Conery · Sawyer v. Davis · Macartney v. Shipherd · People ex rel. Butler v. Board of Supervisors
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one could or would 'for a moment claim that this act would not have applied to and .have affected the status of this particular territory, if it had gone into effect but a few days earlier — any time before such -status had been judicially declared by the final judgment of the circuit court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alatalo v. Shaver““It seems too clear for dispute that these decisions have not the slightest bearing upon the question before us.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alatalo v. Shaver
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.