Cone v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1987
8 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 Hampton v. State Board of Education
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.
“Courts are not authorized to enjoin the operation of a statute which has been duly adjudged to be constitutional and operative, unless the statute is being illegally applied or unless the statute or the challenged part of it is unconstitutional on unadjudicated grounds. [[Image here]] Chapter 18296 being constitutional and it not being shown that the statute is being unconstitutionally applied, the courts have no authority to enjoin the operation of the statute.”
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.