Hayes v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 1978 · most notably Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Beazley (1907), State Ex Rel. Taylor v. City of Jacksonville (1931)
49 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 Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · State v. Bryan · Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad v. Reynolds · State ex rel. Lamar v. Dillon · Ex parte Knight
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Classifications for purposes of legislation may be made with reference to similarity of situation, circumstances, requirements, and convenience to best subserve the public interest. The test as to the validity of classifications for purposes of legislation is good faith, not wisdom."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the legislature shall have power to establish and to abolish municipalities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to prescribe their jurisdiction and powers.”
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.