Overshiner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 1965 · most notably Bradley v. Board of Zoning Adjustment (1926), State ex rel. Milwaukee Medical College v. Chittenden (1906)
35 state decisions — followed in 14 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · Louisville Gas Co. v. Citizens' Gas Co. · Robinson v. Schenck
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where the constitution is silent, and the question is one of public policy, or relates to the best means or agency for the attainment of some governmental end, it must be presumed that the framers of the constitution intended to invest the legislative body with a large discretion in the selection of the agencies most suitable and beneficial to the public.”
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.