Ritchie v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
13 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 Field v. Clark · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · Preston v. Spaulding · Gardner v. The Collector · Post v. Supervisors
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. When the enrolled act is assailed in a court of law on the ground that it was not constitutionally passed by the legislature, the court must determine whether there was a compliance or noncompliance with the mandatory provisions of the constitution respecting the mode and manner of the passing of the act. For this purpose, I have no doubt that, upon principle, as well as authority, the court may take judicial notice of the legislative journals, and, in a proper case, go behind the enrolled act, even when such act has been properly authenticated and deposited with the secretary of state, and examine such journals, giving their contents such weight as evidence as they may be entitled to receive, considering the manner in which they are kept, and circumstances under which the entries have been made;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. Rampton“[the power to declare what the law shall be is legislative. The power to declare what is the law is judicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Judd v. Drezga“Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Matheson
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.