Anderson v. Lamm’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Colorado General Assembly v. Lamm (1985), 441 So. 2d 1329 - Alexander v. State by and Through Allain (1983)
54 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 People v. Tremaine · Mac Manus v. Love · State Ex Rel. Meyer v. State Board of Equalization & Assessment · Carr v. Frohmiller · State Ex Rel. Hueller v. Thompson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he legislature may not attach conditions to a general appropriation bill which purport to reserve to the legislature powers of close supervision that are essentially executive in character. We are confronted with such a legislative encroachment on the executive in the present case with respect to appropriations that are conditioned upon certain reports to or approval from the general assembly's Joint Budget Committee.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, — the legislative, executive and judicial; and no person or collection of persons charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as in this constitution expressly directed or permitted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]eneral appropriation bills shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the expense of the executive, legislative and judiciary departments... . All other appropriations shall by made by separate bills.”
3 later decisions 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.