Peck v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2025
12 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Reed v. Allen · State v. Stimpson · State v. Graves · Re Montpelier & Barre Railroad Corporation
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The remark of Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407 (1819), that “[w]e must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding” resounds as a vital truth, and we keep it in mind as we face the task before the Court in this case. The standards for interpreting constitutional language and meaning, though related, are not the same as for ordinary statutes. Canons of construction, if applied, must be used more cautiously and sometimes differently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As regards judicial selection, the Commission believes that the judicial selection board presently existing by statute, the legitimacy of which on occasion has been questioned due to its lack of constitutional sanction, should be provided for and given explicit recognition in the Constitution. As noted above, the concept of the Missouri Plan has been given effect only as to the district judges, and in a modified form as to the supreme court justices and superior judges. The Commission supports the essential elements of this plan as now in effect with regard to the district judges, which contemplates the submission of nominees for judicial offices to the governor by a judicial nominating board, appointment by the governor from the nominees so submitted, and tenure in office thereafter unless voted out of office by a majority of the members of the General Assembly voting on the question at a stated interval. It is the belief of the Commission that this is the best method of selection for the purpose of insuring that persons selected as members of the judiciary will possess the necessary ability and professional qualifications, and that the selection process under this proposal would be as free as possible from the effects of political influence. While under this proposal the General Assembly will no longer be empowered to elect supreme court justices and superior judges, it is proposed that the consent of the Senate be required for confirmation of all judicial appointments. Int”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Changes were made in the filing time for declarations by justices of their intention to succeed themselves from the former requirement requiring filing ninety days prior to expiration of the term of office to a specific filing date, September 1 of the year preceding the expiration of the term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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