Lukens v. Nye’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles (1950), 24 Cal. 3d 836 - California Manufacturers Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission (1979)
53 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 Clark v. . State · People Ex Rel. Satterlee v. . Board of Police · Martin v. Zellerbach · Harpending v. Haight · State v. Holder
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s an executive officer, [the Governor] is forbidden to exercise any legislative power or function except as ... the constitution expressly provide[s].”
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.