State ex rel. Attorney General v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1956
1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the residue of the Act, beyond that portion held by us not to be of force as law, is unaffected thereby, inasmuch as that is a distinct and independent matter, no way affecting the scope and efficiency of the Act, according to the intention of the law-maker.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“either by construction or reformation, when that can be done without the substantial destruction of that in which it inheres.”
1 later decision 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.