Hill v. Rae’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
2 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy (1939), State ex rel. Dix v. Celeste (1984)
2 district · 76 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · County of Mobile v. Kimball
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute solemnly enacted is not to be overthrown by anything short of positive conviction of its illegality, and it is not destroyed in toto because of an improper provision, unless such provision is necessary to the integrity of the statute or was the inducement of its enactment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.