Ashton v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 912 - Collins v. Riley (1944), Hall v. Blan (1933)
28 state decisions — followed in 12 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 State ex rel. Weldon v. Thomason · Fergus v. Russel
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each house (of the legislature) may provide conveniences, such as stationery, pencils, ink, telephone and telegraph, and other things for the use of the members, and pay for the same out. of contingent expenses, but it is quite another thing to attempt to make an allowance of funds to a member to be used at will. One is the payment of a legitimate expense, and the,other is an allowance placed at the disposal of the member to be used at his own discretion and will. One is a payment of necessary expenses of the house itself, and the other is an allowance to the member in spite of the provision of the Constitution to the contrary. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallarno v. Long“"And they shall receive no compensation, perquisite or allowance whatever, except as herein provided."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Mears
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.