In Re Pfahler’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 480 - People Ex Rel. Younger v. County of El Dorado (1971), 2 Cal. 3d 765 - Westbrook v. Mihaly (1970)
92 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Luther v. Borden · Minor v. Happersett · Taylor v. Beckham · Forsyth v. City of Hammond · Stoutenburgh v. Hennick
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was doubtless recognized by the framers of the constitution, as it must be by every one, that in the conduct of municipal affairs, it would be impracticable to do without the presence of a local legislative body of some kind, which should possess such powers in that behalf as might be granted to it, and that such'a body would exist in every municipality. The words ‘legislative authority’ as here used have no greater significance than such words as ‘common council or other legislative body’ would have had. They were simply intended to designate the particular body which it was recognized would exist under some name or other in every municipality as the proper official agency to submit propositions for amendments to charters, and were not intended to define the powers of that body, or place it in a position where it would be beyond restrictions by the organic act of the city.” (Italics mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The common council or other local legislative body and other charter officers do not constitute the 'city,' but are merely agents or officers of the city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be construed as meaning some board or officers of the city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.