Hiers v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), City of Winter Haven v. A. M. Klemm & Son (1938)
54 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 United States v. Jin Fuey Moy · Covington Turnpike Road Co v. Sandford · Harriman v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Tinsley v. Anderson · Metropolis Theater Company v. City of Chicago J
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a statute is susceptible of two constructions, by one of which grave and doubtful constitutional questions arise and by the other of which such questions are avoided, our duty is to adopt the latter”
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.