Wittler v. Baumgartner’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Douglas v. Nebraska Mortgage Finance Fund (1979), Mueller v. Union Pacific Railroad (1985)
1 district · 24 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 In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District · Ennis v. State Highway Commission · United Community Services v. Omaha National Bank · Orbison v. WELSH, GOVERNOR · State ex rel. Johnson v. Consumers Public Power District
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appointive power here involved is executive or administrative in character. The power of the Legislature to consent or confirm executive appointments is also executive or administrative rather than a legislative function. But the Constitution itself transgresses the division of powers provision contained in it and, so far as it does, the separate departments have the power constitutionally granted.”
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.