Denney v. State ex rel. Basler’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably City of Sapulpa v. Land (1924), Wedmore v. State (1957)
80 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Houston v. Moore · Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · Parker v. State ex rel. Powell · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · People Ex Rel. Carter v. . Rice
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deciding so grave a matter as that of the constitutionality of an act of the legislature,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The number of Senators and Representatives shall * * * be fixed by law, and apportioned among the several counties, according to the number of male inhabitants, above twenty-one years of age, in each * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stout v. Bottorff““There can be no legislative discretion, under the constitution, to give a county of less population than another a greater representation.””
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.