Bachus v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably NC + Hybrids v. Growers Seed Ass'n (1985), City of Scottsbluff v. Tiemann (1970)
44 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 Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works · United Community Services v. Omaha National Bank · Franzen v. Blakley · Johnson Fruit Company v. Story · Misle v. Miller
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is not to be read as if open to construction as a matter of course. Where the words of a statute are plain, direct, and unambiguous, no interpretation is needed to ascertain the meaning. In the absence of anything to indicate the contrary, words must be given their ordinary meaning. It is not within the province of a court to read a meaning into a statute that is not warranted by the legislative language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must assume that the Legislature intended to do what it did.”
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.