State v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Mountain Fuel Supply Co. v. Emerson (1978), People v. Stokes (1917)
35 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Atchison Co v. Matthews · Home Telephone Telegraph Company v. City of Los Angeles · Chicago Burlington Quincy Railway Company v. People of the State of Illinois I O Grimwood F L · District of Columbia v. Alice Brooke · Ozan Lumber Company v. Union County National Bank of Liberty Indiana
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * it cannot at all times be easy to determine what is reasonable or unreasonable in the matter of classification. The rule applies that all reasonable doubts are to be resolved in favor of the validity of the statute, and that the Legislature is presumed to have acted upon a knowledge of the facts, and to have had in view the promotion of the general welfare of the people as a whole; and hence the classification and discrimination involved therein must clearly appear to be unreasonable, and therefore arbitrary, in order to justify the court in declaring an act assailed on that ground to be void.* * *””
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.