Meshmeier v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1924
20 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Thorne v. Cramer · Armstrong v. Jackson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature pass an entire statute on the supposition, of course, that it is all valid and to take effect. The courts find some of its essential elements in conflict with the constitution, strip it of those elements, and leave the remaining portion mutilated and transformed into a different thing from what it was when it left the hands of the legislature. The statute thus emasculated is not the creature of the legislature, and it would be an act of legislation on the part of the courts to put it in force. The courts have no right thus to usurp the province of the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.