Gregg v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1977 · most notably Jones v. Sewer Improvement District No. 3 (1915), Helton v. Sisters of Mercy of St. Joseph's Hospital (1961)
28 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 Whitfield v. City of Paris · Trammell v. Town of Russellville · McIlhenney v. City of Wilmington · Arkadelphia v. Windham · State ex rel. Izard County v. Hinkle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So far as municipal corporations exercise powers conferred on them for purposes essentially public, they stand as does sovereignty whose agents they are, and are not liable to be sued for any act or omission occurring while in the exercise of such powers, unless by some statute the right of action is given; and where, the particular enterprise is purely a matter of public service for the general and common good, it makes no difference whether it is mandatory, or whether only permitted and voluntarily undertaken.”
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.