Warner v. Gabb’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Adams v. Rubinow (1968), Chotkowski v. State (1997)
38 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 Lyman v. Adorno · Murphy, Inc. v. Town of Westport · State ex rel. Higgins v. Civil Service Commission · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Graham v. Schmid · Beach v. Bradstreet
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f legislation directs the granting of an emolument or privilege to an individual or class without any purpose, expressed or apparent, to serve the public welfare thereby, the courts have a duty to declare such legislation unconstitutional.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Legislation which grants to a limited class emoluments or privileges greater than those allowed to the public at large is, of course, not necessarily violative of the constitution. If such a grant serves a public purpose, the fact that it is so limited does not render it invalid.”
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.