Hill v. DeWitt’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Wells (2009), Sveen v. Melin (2018)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 79 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 Allied Structural Steel Company v. Spannaus · General Motors Corp. v. Romein · Dodge v. Board of Education · Society for the Propagation of the Gospel v. Wheeler · City of Greenwood Village v. for the Proposed City of Centennial
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Inlo ... law impairing the obligation of contracts ... shall be passed by the general assembly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A statute is applied prospectively if it operates on transactions that occur after its effective date; it is applied retroactively if it operates on transactions that have already occurred or on rights and obligations that existed before its effective date.”
3 later decisions 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.