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Biggs v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis

1889

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
13
states following
May 1977
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1977 · most notably Myers v. United States (1926), Shurtleff v. United States (1903)

6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions — followed in 13 states

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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 Dullam v. Willson · Gentile v. State · People Ex Rel. Munday v. Board of Fire Commissioners · Montgomery v. Merrill · People ex rel. Smith v. Olds

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The power thus exercised has never been called in question, but has ever been acquiesced in by every department of the government, and is in itself a contemporaneous construction of the Constitution, which, if the question were doubtful, might be sufficient to turn the scale in its favor. Under any view, such construction is entitled to great weight, and could not be lightly regarded.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Thielke v. Albee
  2. ““No act shall take effect until ninety days from the end of the .session at which the same shall have been passed, except in case of emergency, which emergency shall be declared in the preamble or. in the body of the law.” (Article 4, § 28.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. City of Roanoke v. Elliott

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.