State ex rel. Beck v. Basham’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably State v. Jackson (1986), 48 Wis. 2d 125 - State v. J. C. Penney Co. (1970)
25 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 People v. Truckee Lumber Co. · Kentucky State Board of Dental Examiners v. Payne · State v. Ohio Oil Co. · State ex rel. Vance v. Crawford · People ex rel. Attorney General v. Tool
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no reason defendant should be permitted openly, notoriously and flagrantly to violate our valid laws enacted for the benefit of our people. The state would be weak indeed if it were powerless to prevent it. Criminal prosecution is not available. Injunction is the only remedy. That remedy can be and should be enforced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is fundamental that courts are open to the state for an action either in its sovereign capacity or as a corporate entity. . . . The sovereignty of a state embraces the power to execute its law.” 50”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.