McCombs v. Dallas County’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1990
7 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 Brown v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · Walnut v. Wade · County of Mitchell v. City National Bank · Lower Colorado River Authority v. McCraw
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.
““The rule is announced in 11 Am.Jur. 924, § 215, that: ‘one of the most important tests as to whether particular laws amount to an invalid delegation of legislative power is found in the completeness of the statute as it appears when it leaves the hands of the legislature. The generally recognized principle is that a law must be so complete in all its terms and provisions when it leaves the legislative branch of the government that nothing is left to the judgment of the electors or other appointee or delegate of the legislature. The rights, duties, privileges or obligations granted or imposed must be definitely fixed or determined, or the rules by which they are to be fixed or determined, must be clearly and definitely established, when the act is passed by the legislature and approved by the governor. The law must be perfect, final and decisive in all of its parts, and the discretion which is given must relate only to execution.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... to indicate the chief thing to which legislation relates, ... The ‘subject’ of an act is the matter or thing forming the groundwork of the act, which may include many parts or things, so long as they are all germane to it and are such that if traced back they will lead the mind to the subject as the generic head.”
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.