State v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1975 · most notably Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan (1924), State v. Hamey (1902)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Ogden v. Saunders · Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Powell v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · The People v. . Marx
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What, then, is the test when the constitutionality of an act of the Legislature is assailed as invading the right of the citizen to use his faculties in the production of an article for sale for food or drink? We answer that if it be an article so universally conceded to be wholesome and innocuous that the court may take judicial notice of it, the Legislature under the Constitution has no right to absolutely prohibit it; but if there is a dispute as to the fact of its wholesomeness for food or drink, then the Legislature can either regulate or prohibit it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under forms of government where limitations upon executive and legislative powers do not exist, there is no restriction upon this necessary function of government; but under our federal and state governments limitations are to be found in our written Constitutions.””
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.