Stepp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1998
15 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish · Rast v. Van Deman & Lewis Co. · Alfred Booth v. People of the State of Illinois · People of the State of New York Ex Rel August Silz v. Henry Hesterberg
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... In the light of developments which have appeared at the time of interpretation, and may therefore include things and conditions which not only did not exist but were not contemplated when it was drafted, so long as the new developments are in their nature within the scope of the purposes and powers for the furtherance of which the constitution was established.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The mere fact that possession was not expressly outlawed before the Constitution of 1890, and was not therein treated does not, ipso facto, make the possession of intoxicating liquors protected by Section 32 of the Constitution ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a mistake to suppose that a constitution is to be interpreted only in the light of things as they existed at the time of its adoption.”
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.