Ensign v. . Barse’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Chase v. Trout (1905), Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts (1900)
79 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Howard v. . Moot · Shattuck v. . Bascom · Matter of Application of Paul · B'd Sup'rs of Seneca v. . Allen · Smith v. . White
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defect may ibe in one sense jurisdictional relatively to the authority of the assessors acting under an existing law, and yet not so as it respects the power of the Legislature to- pass a statute curing the defect.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the thing wanting or omitted which constitutes the defect is something the necessity for which the legislature might have dispensed with by prior statutes, or if something has been done, or done in a particular way, which the legislature might have made immaterial, the omission or irregular act may be cured by a subsequent statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chase v. Trout
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.