Meade v. Dane County’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2022
19 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ex parte Vallandigham · State ex rel. Van Alstine v. Frear · State ex rel. City of New Richmond v. Davidson · 22 Tex. Civ. App. 309 - El Paso Gas, Electric Light & Power Co. v. City of El Paso · State ex rel. Crawford v. Hastings
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.
“(1) Because it violates section 22 of article 4 in attempting to delegate to the electors powers which that section, interpreted by the regular rules of interpretation . . . requires to be otherwise delegated. (2) Because, as regards emergency resolutions there defined, which includes the resolutions in question here, the statute is an attempted delegation of the legislative power of repeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the county acts by delegated authority, and the state Constitution (section 22, art. 4) expressly authorizes the Legislature to confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties 'such powers of a local, legislative, and administrative character.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cover all exercise of power by the county board which either may lawfully be or is exercised in the form of a resolution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)
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.