Desky v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1996
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chilvers v. People
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be that the legislature when it fixed the amount of the fee in question contemplated only occasional performances such as occurred here at that time and that if it had contemplated daily or almost daily performances such as the petitioner gives, it would have imposed a lighter fee, .but that is a matter for the legislature, not for the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tait v. Campbell
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.