State v. Clement’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably Knapp v. Jefferson-Plaquemines Drainage Dist. (1953), Kotch v. Board of River Port Pilot Com'rs (1946)
35 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 State v. Nejin · State Ex Rel. Porterie v. Smith · State ex rel. Cothren v. Lean · People ex rel. Miller v. Cooper · State v. Donato
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 will hardly be disputed that any statute which does not operate equally upon all of a designated class of property or citizens of the state; which, on account of its restrictions, can touch but a portion of the designated class of property, but a fraction of the designated class of citizens of the state, is a local and not a general law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A local or special law is one which, because of its restrictions, can operate upon or affect only a portion of the citizens, a fraction of the property embraced within the classification created.”
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.