State ex rel. Wright v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Prendergast v. Nelson (1977), State v. Gatlin (1961)
36 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 Havemeyer v. Superior Court · Williams v. Miles · Baum v. Thoms · Thomson v. . Tracy · Burnham v. Bennison
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a statute abrogating a rule or principle of the common law is repealed, the common-law principle or rule is ipso facto revived, unless there is something to show a contrary intent on the part of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State“It is an imperative duty of the judicial department of government to protect its jurisdiction at the boundaries of power fixed by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arant v. G. H., Inc.
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.