People v. Hupp’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2005
4 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Lawton v. Steele · Atkin v. State of Kansas · Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park · Thorpe v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The welfare of the people is the supreme law,’ is a maxim of the law; and it is upon these two maxims that the police power of the state is largely based. In the exercise of the police power, the Legislature has a large discretion, and it is our duty to sustain such legislation unless it is clearly and palpably and beyond all question in violation of the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is said that the police power of the state is founded largely upon the maxim: ‘Use your property in such manner as not to injure that of another.’ ””
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.