Dixon v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
1 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 912 - Collins v. Riley (1944), Hall v. Blan (1933)
1 district · 32 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 Sharpless v. Mayor of Philadelphia · Terrell v. Middleton · McCoy v. Handlin · Ashton v. Ferguson · Graham v. Childers
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the language employed by the makers of the basic law of the state should not be given a strained or subtle meaning, but such meaning as the average citizen would conclude the language imports. This for the reason that the electorate, in ratifying the document and thereby breathing life into the same, considered the provisions as the language used fairly imports.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * We not only approve, but adopt, the reasoning- of the Supreme Court of the state of Kansas, in the said case of Griffith v. Turner, as to the distinction between expenses that are legislative and amply within the authority of that body to provide and use, and those which are purely personal in .their nature, and by reason thereof are, under the said section 21 of the Oklahoma Constitution, an allowance of a compensation other than that provided in the said section. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spearman v. Williams“The Legislature shall hold regular biennial sessions as herein provided, but this shall not prevent the calling of a special session of the Legislature by the Governor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tate v. Logan
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.