Wright v. House’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel. (1929), Wright-Bachman, Inc. v. HODNETT (1956)
51 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Norwood v. Baker · Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley · Fallbrook Irrigation Dist v. Bradley · Kelly v. Pittsburgh
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The power to construct and maintain public highways is a governmental function, the same as the power to build schoolhouses and support schools or to build courthouses and jails, or to construct and maintain asylums for the insane or for the dependent poor."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State““. . . the appropriation of money and the levy of taxes to raise funds to pay for such improvements must be regarded as being properly connected with the subject of the act as expressed in the title.””
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.