Edwards v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
13 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · O'Donoghue v. United States · Carr v. State ex rel. Coetlosquet · Thomas v. Owens · Riley v. Carter
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Enrolled House Bill No. 74 was enacted by the 1945 Legislature to carry out the provisions of Section 17 of the Schedule to the Constitution. Section 17 of the Schedule is a mandate in the Constitution that the State officers involved here ‘shall receive such compensation for their services as may be provided by law.’ The three sections quoted above from the Schedule to the Constitution (Sections 15, 16, and 17) show that it is the intent of the Constitution that State officers shall receive for their services the compensation fixed by law for them to receive, and the failure of the Legislature to make an appropriation to pay them such compensation does not defeat their right to such compensation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rountree v. Phelps““This constituted a limitation and restriction upon the power of the Legislature. Any attempt, directly or indirectly, by the Legislature to evade the force and effect of that constitutional limitation and restriction is ineffective and void. There is no principle of our government that is better settled than that the salary or emoluments of a public official cannot be changed during his term of office in violation of such a constitutional prohibition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bond v. Phelps““This opinion is delivered ‘per cur-iam’ for the reason it has been prepared, after careful consideration of the issues, by the joint efforts of each and every member of the court, and reflects their composite views.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bond v. Phelps
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.