State ex rel. Ward v. Romero’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Trujillo (2002), State v. Chambers (1974)
50 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 People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · State ex rel. Collett v. Gorby · Colbert v. Bond · People ex rel. Douvielle v. Board of Supervisors · Merwin v. Board of County Commissioners
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is the duty of this court to interpret the various provisions of the Constitution to carry out the spirit of that instrument. We should not permit legal technicalities and subtle niceties to control and thereby destroy what the framers of the Constitution intended. “Where the spirit and intent of the instrument can be clearly ascertained, effect should be given to it, and the strict letter should not control if the letter leads to incongruous results clearly not intended.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is also true that the constitution and laws, in speaking of the courts of Common Pleas, term them at different times the Courts of Common Pleas ‘in each county,’ ‘of each county,’ and ‘within each county.’ But the phraseology seems to re-, fer to the geographical limit within which the duties of each are to be exercised, and not the nature or grade of the office.””
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.