State v. Hinchman’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1920
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 State v. Coleman
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.
““If the process were technically legal but the constables were not acting in good faith under it — were actually abusing it — they were trespassers. . . . If he did not go there in good faith, but went there to assist.in the abuse of legal process, he was a trespasser. If he acted in-good faith he was accorded the same rights as any person rightfully stationed and wrongfully assailed.” (Page 422.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the process were technically legal, but the constables were not acting in good faith under it — were actually abusing it — they were trespassers. If they were acting in good faith their attitude was made the same as if the process were legal, even though invalid.” (p. 422.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kasparek v. Throop
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.