Jackson v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1971 · most notably Ricks v. Department of State Civil Service (1942), Stewart v. Stanley (1941)
34 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. Martin · Wm. M. Barret, Inc. v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport · Grinage v. Times-Democrat Publishing Co. · White v. Walker · Jackson v. Hart
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 16, Article 3 of the Constitution of 1921 provides that: “ ‘Every law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one object, and shall have a title indicative of such object.’ “Under corresponding sections in preceding constitutions, it was required that the object of the law be ‘expressed’ in its title. The effect of the changing of the wording of the constitutional provision was to relax the previous requirement that the statute must ‘express’ its object, so ’now all that is required is that the title of the statute should be ‘indicative’ of its object. The constitutional provision must be construed broadly rather than narrowly with a view of effectuating, not of frustrating, the legislative purpose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burglass v. Burglass
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.