Sawyer v. Barbour’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 51 Cal. 2d 177 - In Re Petersen (1958), 9 Cal. 3d 345 - In Re Underwood (1973)
52 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 Huntington v. Attrill · United States v. La Franca · 20 Cal. 2d 366 - Pipoly v. Benson · 13 Cal. 2d 620 - Jersey Maid Milk Products Co. v. Brock · 104 Cal. App. 2d 642 - People v. Hess
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]xcessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A law is general when it applies equally to all persons embraced in a class founded on some natural, intrinsic, or constitutional distinction. It is special if it confers particular privileges or imposes peculiar disabilities or burdensome conditions in the exercise of a common right on a class of persons arbitrarily selected from the general body of those who stand in precisely the same relation to the subject of the law. Serve Yourself Gas, etc., Ass'n, v. Brock, 39 Cal.2d 813, 820 , 249 P.2d 545 . The prohibition against special legislation does not preclude classification, but only requires that the classification be reasonable. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The generality of a statute does not depend on the number within or without the class it purports to affect, as plaintiff argues. [Citation.] “The Legislature may classify on the basis of the nature of the circumstances attending the commission of an offense considered in its relation to the public welfare. [Citations.] Another permissible basis of classification is the status of the offender. [Citation.] The Legislature has constitutional power to fix different penalties for different crimes, the penalty in each case measured by the nature of the crime and its effects on society. [Citations.]” (Pp. 838-839.)”
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.