Hazzard v. Gallucci’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably City of Bridgeport v. Town of Stratford (1955), Wilson v. Town of West Haven (1955)
31 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 Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · People, Ex Rel. Wood v. . Lacombe · Sears v. Terry · City of Middletown v. N. Y., N. H. H. R. R. Co. · Savings Bank of Danbury v. Downs
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.
“such courts can only exercise their powers in the cases and the manner clearly prescribed by the legislature, and it is imperative that they should proceed in the manner directed by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bitar v. Shea“The fundamental rule for the construction of statutes is to ascertain the intent of the legislature. This intention must be ascertained from the Act itself, if the language is plain.”
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.