Bond v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Edmondson v. Pearce (2004), Johnson v. Ward (1975)
27 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Hallinger v. Davis · United States v. Saunders · State Ex Rel. Caldwell v. Hooker, County Judge · State ex rel. Wyatt v. Ashbrook
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Except wherein otherwise provided in this Constitution, in no case shall the salary or emoluments of any public official be changed after his election or appointment, or during his term of office, unless by operation of law enacted prior to such election or appointment".”
3 later decisions 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.