Boyer v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Caldor's, Inc. v. Bedding Barn, Inc. (1979), Stephens v. Snyder Clinic Ass'n (1981)
4 district · 22 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. Hill · State v. Smiley · Water District No. 1 v. Robb · Anderson v. Board of County Commissioners · Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad
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.
“"`§ 17. Uniform operation of laws of a general nature; special laws, urban areas. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state; and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted; and whether or not a law enacted is repugnant to this provision of the constitution shall be construed and determined by the courts of the state: Provided, The legislature may designate areas in counties that have become urban in character as "urban areas" and enact special laws giving to such counties or urban areas such powers of local government and consolidation of local government as the legislature may deem proper.'" (Constitutions Volume, p. 61.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While it is undoubtedly true that a statute may be constitutional in one part, and unconstitutional in another, yet this rule obtains only where the two parts are separate and independent; and where they ara so related that the latter is a condition of, a compensation for, or an inducement to the former, or where it is obvious that the legislature, having respect to opposing rights and interests, would not have enacted one but for the other, then the unconstitutionality of the latter avoids the entire statute.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the exercise of its power of regulation a state possesses broad discretion in the manner of classification, but discrimination in a regulatory statute must be based on differences and distinctions that have a reasonable and substantial relation to the purposes of the statute and the subject matter thereof.” 192 Kan. at 611 , 389 P.2d 775 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Doran v. Priddy
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.