State ex rel. Meyer v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably In Re Opinions of the Justices (1923), Alford v. State ex rel. Attorney General (1910)
2 federal appellate · 81 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Green v. Weller · Lehman v. Robinson · Miller v. Jones · State ex rel. Astor v. Schlitz Brewing Co.
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the legislature shall be convened in special session, there shall be no legislation upon subjects other than those designated in the proclamation of the governor calling such session, except by a vote of two-thirds of each house. Special sessions shall be limited to thirty days.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The presiding officer of each house shall, in the presence of the house over which he presides, sign all bills and joint resolutions passed by the legislature....”
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.