Perry v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1991
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Spokane Grain & Fuel Co. v. Lyttaker · Lancey v. King County · State ex rel. Seattle Electric Co. v. Superior Court · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. Washington County · Waterbury v. Board of 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the meaning of the provisions of section 57 of article 5 of the Constitution that upon passage of each new law all prior laws, which it may modify by implication, shall be re-enacted and published at length as modified, for such a construction would result in more evil than was intended to be corrected by the provisions in the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No elaborate statement of the subject of an act is necessary to meet the requirements of the constitutional provision. A few well chosen words, suggestive of the general subject stated, is all that is necessary.””
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.