State v. Beckman’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2002
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Creacy v. Industrial Commission · Burton v. City & County of Denver · Town of Sugar v. Board of Commissioners · City & County of Denver v. School District No. 1 · Town of Greenwood Village v. District Court
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] specific legislative declaration that a later law repeals any provisions of an earlier law in conflict with the later law is superfluous since a later law automatically repeals an earlier law which conflicts with it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * p>ut statutes are of equal dignity save, that when in irreconcilable conflict we read into the last a repeal by necessary implication. * * * They must be construed in pari materia and if possible, and we think it is, reconciled. This rule applies with peculiar force to acts passed by the same legislature, and doubly so if approved at the same time. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rowland v. Theobald
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.