Robertson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1985
5 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 Ex parte Howard-Harrison Iron Co. · Montgomery Beer Bottling Works v. Gaston
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In all such cases — in all cases, we apprehend, where, in the judgment of the house, it becomes necessary to the transaction of legislative business for a speaker pro tempore to be chosen and installed — the house may elect one of its members to discharge all the duties of the office of speaker for a time commensurate with the necessity, and such temporary speaker is ‘the presiding officer' of the house, who is authorized by section 27, article 4, of the constitution to sign bills, etc. * * * ””
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.