Hilger v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Billings Properties, Inc. v. Yellowstone County (1964), State v. Safeway Stores, Inc. (1938)
75 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 Orient Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Daggs · Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad v. Commonwealth · Pacific Express Co. v. Seibert · Michigan Central Railroad v. Powers · Pembina Consolidated Silver Mining & Milling Co. v. Pennsylvania
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * but they [decisions in other courts] are practically without value in this instance. They construe constitutional provisions altogether unlike our own. Indeed, no other state in the Union has provisions in its Constitution similar to those [article XII] of ours enumerated above. Some of these may be found in the Constitution of one state; some in another; some of them cannot be found in the Constitution of any other state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Taxation for the purpose of raising public revenue is a subject peculiarly and inherently of legislative cognizance. (1 Cooley on Taxation, 3 Id., p. 7), and our Legislature was therefore within its authority in enacting House Bill No. 30, unless the authority to do so is denied to it by the state Constitution or by the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Toomey“discrimination in favor of one as against another of the same class,”
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.