State v. Bockstruck’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 1989 · most notably State ex rel. Applegate v. Taylor (1909), State v. Snyder (1904)
72 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 Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · United States v. Cook · The People v. . Marx · People v. . Arensberg · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Mead
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now nothing is better settled than that a part of a law may be declared constitutionally invalid, and yet another portion properly separable therefrom, and therefore unexceptionable in every particular. This may be so even though the sound and unsound are in one section together. This is always the rule unless the parts sound and unsound are so mutually related, so blended together, as to constitute an entirety, making it evident that unless the act be carried into effect as a whole, it could not have received the legislative sanction. [Bishop, Stat. Crim., sec. 34, and cases cited.] There seems to be no such indication observable in this instance.””
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.