Ex Parte: Chester White’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978), Aldana v. Holub (1980)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 State v. Bryan · State ex rel. Hampton v. McClung · People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of Sessions · Gray v. Central Florida Lumber Co. · Attorney General ex rel. Taylor v. Brown
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It may be proper to say here, that the executive, in the proper discharge of his duties under the constitution, is as independent of the courts as he is of the legislature." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.