State v. Ingalls’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably City of Raton v. Sproule (1967), State Ex Rel. State Park & Recreation Commission v. New Mexico State Authority (1966)
70 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 Com. ex rel. Greene v. Gregg · State v. Swagerty · State ex rel. Troll v. Hudson · 7 Mo. App. 169 - City of St. Louis v. Bircher · Florida Central & Peninsular R. R. v. City of Columbia
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The generality of a title is therefore no objection to it so long as it is not made a cover to legislation incongruous in itself, and which by no fair intendment can be construed as having a necessary or proper connection.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller
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.