Mac Manus v. Love’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick (1974), 87 Wash. 2d 232 - In Re the Salary of the Juvenile Director (1976)
40 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 Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands Agoncillo · State Ex Rel. Meyer v. State Board of Equalization & Assessment · Stong v. Industrial Commission · Bedford v. People Ex Rel. Tiemann
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, — the legislative, executive and judicial; and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Colorado Constitution merely states in effect that the legislature cannot exercise executive or judicial power; and that the executive cannot exercise legislative or judicial power .... It does not prescribe exact limits of the respective powers. The dividing lines between the respective powers are often in crepuscular zones, and, therefore, delineation thereof usually should be on a case-by-case basis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.