13 Cal. 2d 513 - Swing v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2016
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 McGrain v. Daugherty · People Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Curry · Gilbreath v. Willett
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Article V, Section 9, of the Constitution provides that the legislature at special session ‘shall have no power to legislate on any subjects other than those specified in the proclamation. . . .’ This constitutes a prohibition against exercising legislative powers at a special session except in considering matters included within the call. The work of legislative committees is subsidiary and auxiliary to the legislative functions of each house. If the legislature cannot directly legislate on matters not included within the call, then it cannot exercise dependent or subsidiary powers derived solely from the direct power to legislate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.