State v. Bassett’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably Silver v. Silver (1928), Lyman v. Adorno (1947)
26 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 Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. Lynch · Escanaba Lake Michigan Transp Co v. City of Chicago · Lake Shore Ry Co v. State of Ohio Lawrence · Town of Windsor v. Whitney · Beach v. Bradstreet
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.
“The purpose of this legislation was to prevent such inconvenience and confusion to the public as might arise from the display of clocks on public buildings and highways indicating the time of day as otherwise than the standard time established by law, and prescribed for conducting the government of the state and municipalities and which was in use upon railways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State“legislation in the interest of public convenience and public welfare also comes under the police power”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. State
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.