State Ex Rel. Powell v. Leon County’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2003
8 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 Matter of Gertum v. . Board of Supervisors · 9 E.H. Smith 308 - People Ex Rel. Bronx Gas & Electric Co. v. Barker · Atlanta & West Point Railroad v. Hudson · Bendheim Bros. v. Baldwin
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is fundamental and elementary that the legislature may not do that by indirect action which it is prohibited by the Constitution to do by direct action."”
2 later decisions 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.