State Ex Rel. King v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
6 district · 28 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 212
Relies on Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Stone v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · United States v. Darby · Lassen v. Arizona Ex Rel. Arizona Highway Department · Hicks v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress contemplated that any change ... to the use of the proceeds of the lands granted to the state should be effectuated by amendment to the Constitution, and . . . any change in the use and application of the proceeds of these land grants may ... be done by way of a constitutional amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moses v. Skandera“first, disposals of land are limited to the disposals described in the Enabling Act [of 1910, 36 Stat. 557 ]; second, land can only be sold or leased at a public auction to the highest and best bidder; and third, all sales and leases must yield at least the appraised value of the land.”
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.