State v. Darlington’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp. v. Cobb (2001), Roth v. Local Union No. 1460 of Retail Clerks Union (1939)
28 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 Legler v. Paine · Hoover v. Wood · State v. Aydelott · State ex rel. McCay v. Krost · Bowles 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts will not pass upon a constitutional question, and decide a statute to be invalid, unless a decision upon that very point becomes necessary to the determination of the cause.”
2 later decisions 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.