Rutherford v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1959 · most notably French v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. (1901), Kansas City v. J. I. Case Threshing MacHine Co. (1935)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 State ex rel. Parker v. Smith · Inhabitants of Palmyra v. Morton · Granger v. Original Empire Mill & Mining Co. · City ex rel. McGrath v. Clemens · Sheehan v. Owen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing is stated regarding the cause of their assembling. It may have been upon special call of the mayor, or in supposed compliance with the adjournment of eight days before. It appears that regular municipal business was transacted and a record thereof was preserved in the usual way by the proper officer. In the absence, therefore, of any evidence to the contrary, it will be presumed that these public officers rightly acted in the premises and that the meeting was properly convened.””
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.