Weisenberger v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 1993 · most notably Book v. State Office Building Commission (1958), Price v. State (1993)
35 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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Railroad Company v. Husen · Quong Wing v. Kirkendall · Weaver v. Palmer Bros. · Hedderich v. State
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . While the State, in the exercise of this power, may subject persons and property to all kinds of restraints and burdens, even to an encroachment upon the natural rights of the citizen, yet where it manifestly appears that the action of the Legislature is not supported by any reason and is purely arbitrary, thereby invading property rights of an individual, . . . courts may look to the character and reasonableness of the limitation for the purpose of determining whether or not it reaches beyond the scope of necessary protection and prevention. In other words, ‘they will pass upon the question whether such act has a substantial relation to the police power.’ People v. Weiner (1915), 271 Ill. 74, 78 , 110 N.E. 870 , L.R.A. 1916C 775 , Ann. Cas. 1917C 1065,” (Emphasis added). Weisenberger, supra.”
1 later decision 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.