Sutton v. . Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1984
15 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 Katzenstein v. Raleigh & Gaston Railroad · Branch v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad · State v. . Hall · Whitehead v. Wilmington & Weldon Railroad · State Ex Rel. Maggett v. Roberts
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the courts have the power, and it is their duty in proper cases, to declare an act of the Legislature unconstitutional, it is a well-recognized principle that the courts will not declare that this coordinate branch of the government (89) has exceeded the powers vested in it unless it is plainly and clearly the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If there is any reasonable doubt, it will be resolved in favor of the lawful exercise of their powers by the representatives of the people.”
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.