State ex rel. Holmes v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably State ex rel. Walker v. Bus (1896), State ex inf. Hadley v. Washburn (1902)
30 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Pearce v. Calhoun · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. McKee · Cones v. Ward
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases where . . . any state officer is a party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dietrich v. Brickey
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.