Clough v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
134 U.S. 361 · 1890
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. Bondurant (1921), Territory of New Mexico Ex Rel McLean Company v. Denver Rio Grande Railroad Company (1906)
15 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 Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Kendall v. United States ex rel. Stokes · United States v. Boutwell · Richard Watkins v. Oliver Holman · Gardner v. The Collector
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not one of the functions of a court to make up the records of the proceedings of legislative bodies. Nor can it be required, in a case not involving the private interests of parties, to determine whether particular bodies assuming to exercise legislative functions, constitute a lawful legislative assembly. Such a question might indeed arise in a suit depending upon an enactment passed by such an assembly. And it might be that, in a case of that character, and under some circumstances, the court would be compelled to decide whether such an enactment was passed by. a legislature having legal authority to enact laws. How far in the decision of such a question the judiciary would be concluded by the record of the proceedings of those bodies, deposited by the person whose duty it was to keep it, with the officer designated by law as its custodian, are questions we have no occasion at this time to consider.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyons v. Woods
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.