State v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably Lutz Industries, Inc. v. Dixie Home Stores (1955), Board of Trustees of the Employees' Retirement System v. Mayor of Baltimore City (1989)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Isenhour v. State · Railroad Commission v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad · Ex parte McNulty · Georgia Railroad v. Smith · State ex rel. Taylor v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In considering the correctness of the district court's decision in quashing the informations against the defendants, it is only necessary to recur to the most simple and elementary principles of civil government. In our commonwealth the power to make, amend, alter and repeal the laws is vested in the legislature. That body may not abdicate its functions nor delegate its power to any other body, however learned, wise and farsighted the latter may be. This principle of our Constitution and of our public policy is fundamental.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hall“But none of the cases cited has ventured so far afield as to intimate that the legislature might delegate to some unofficial organization of private persons, like the National Fire Protective Association, the power to promulgate rules for the government of the people of this State or for the management of their property, or that the legislature might prescribe punishment for breaches of these rules. We feel certain that no such judicial doctrine has ever been announced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hall“All electric wiring shall be in accordance with the national electrical code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hall
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.