Powell v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2007
12 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 Field v. Clark · Chicago Ry Co v. Wellman · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · Wilkes County v. Coler · Waterman v. Hawkins
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mr. Greenleaf says that public documents, such as executive proclamations, are admissible to prove pertinent facts when the statement is made therein by the person whose duty it is to ¡make it and the subject-matter belong to his province or came within his official cognizance and observations. 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, § 491 (16 ed.). “Therefore, the recitals of the Governor’s proclamation which are pertinent to the issue, made within his province, and which state facts; within his official cognizance, must be taken as record evidence prima facie at least proving the facts recited.””
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.