State v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Theodosopoulos (1979), Donnelly v. City of Manchester (1971)
3 district · 22 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 v. Cohen · State v. Ramseyer · State v. Paille · Musgrove a v. Winthrop Parker A. · Clarke v. . City of Rochester
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile general statutes must be enacted by the legislature, it is plain the power to make local regulations, having the force of law in limited localities, may be committed to other bodies representing the people in their local divisions, or to the people of those districts themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our whole system of local government in cities, villages, counties and towns, depends upon that distinction. The practice has existed from the foundation of the state, and has always been considered a prominent feature in the American system of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the measure adopted in this case concededly was not a health measure, it could be found to bear a substantial relation to the maintenance of order and the protection of persons and property in the area. [Citation omitted.]””
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.