Ex parte Spinney’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably Graves v. State of Minnesota (1926), Quong Ham Wah Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission (1920)
1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 17 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 State ex rel. Stoutmeyer v. Duffy
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To superintend, the conscience and intelligence of legislators, and see that they pay a due regard to considerations of justice and expediency in " the enactment of laws, is the business of the people. The sooner this truth is recognized the better.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.