Hallgren v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1972 · most notably Ekern v. McGovern (1913), United States Creary v. Weeks (1922)
27 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Ex parte Hennen · Board of Auditors v. Benoit · Steckert v. City of East Saginaw · State ex rel. Denison v. City of St. Louis · People ex rel. Mead v. Treasurer of Ingham County
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have not found any case where an officer who was appointed for a fixed term (and when the power of removal was not expressly declared by law to be discretionary) has been held to be removable except for cause.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Our State system favors appointments for fixed periods, and almost entirely rejects the policy of removals at will.””
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.