State v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1958 · most notably State v. Noland (1892), State v. Patterson (1885)
30 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 Southgate v. Atlantic & Pacific Railroad · State v. West · State v. Flint · State v. Burgess · State v. Baber
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This statute was necessarily prospective in its operation. It applied by its terms to the then existing officers of the State, of whatever grade, so that they only came into official being ‘ by virtue of the constitution of this State, or any law thereof.’ As a corollary to this, it would apply to any officer thereafter created, provided only that he be ‘ appointed or elected by virtue of the constitution or any law thereof.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Kriesel
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.