In Re Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1983 · most notably 13 Cal. 2d 620 - Jersey Maid Milk Products Co. v. Brock (1939), 51 Cal. 2d 620 - People v. Turville (1959)
41 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 Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District · Bourland v. Hildreth · People ex rel. Morgan v. Hayne · University of California v. Bernard
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption always is that an act of the legislature is constitutional, and, when this depends on the existence or nonexistence of some fact, or state of facts, the determination thereof is primarily for the legislature, and the courts will acquiesce in its decision, unless the error clearly appears.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stettler v. O'Hara
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.