Ewing v. Hoblitzelle’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State ex rel. Hawes v. Mason (1899), City of St. Louis v. Weitzel (1895)
78 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State ex rel. Attorney General v. Mead · State ex rel. Harris v. Herrmann · State ex rel. Richards v. Hammer · State ex rel. Lionberger v. Tolle · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Ranson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, the General Assembly shall have the same power over the city and county of St Louis that it has over other cities and counties of this State.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The test is that `when all the provisions of a statute fairly relate to the same subject; have a natural connection with it, are the incident or the means of accomplishing it, then the subject is single.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No bill . . . shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.”
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.