Caldwell v. Meskill’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably University of Connecticut Chapter v. Governor (1986), Fyber Properties Killingworth Ltd. Partnership v. Shanoff (1994)
3 district · 25 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 Commonwealth v. Barnett · Bengzon v. Secretary of Justice of Philippine Islands · Commonwealth v. Dodson · Commonwealth ex rel. Bell v. Powell · State v. McCook
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.
“An item in an appropriation bill is an indivisible sum of money dedicated to a stated purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[H]ow much is spent is conceptually different from how an amount is spent [,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whatever ... [the constitution] prescribes, the General Assembly, and every officer or citizen to whom the mandate is addressed, must do; and whatever it prohibits, the General Assembly, and every officer and citizen, must refrain from doing; and if either attempt to do that which is prescribed, in any other manner than that prescribed, or to do in any manner that which is prohibited, their action is repugnant to that supreme and paramount law, and invalid.”
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.