Hughes County v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1988
11 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 South Carolina v. United States · Georgia v. City of Chattanooga · Sanitary District of Chicago v. United States · Bank of the United States v. Planters' Bank · Contributors to Pennsylvania Hospital v. City 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question as to whether by its rural credit operations the state is engaged in its private or business capacity as distinguished from its sovereign or governmental capacity, is a serious one, but the disposition we have made of the case renders unnecessary the consideration of that question.””
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.