Hill v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1900
7 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 LeRoy v. East Saginaw City Railway · Travers v. Inslee
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For any property taken by virtue of any warrant for the collection of any tax. assessment, or fine in pursuance of any statute of this State,”—”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Forster v. Brown · Hill v. Graham““ Such a construction would entirely nullify the statute, for the plaintiff could, in any case, set up a claim of invalidity, and sue out his writ, and postpone the determination of the legality of his action until its trial on the merits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Forster v. Brown
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.