People v. . Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1952
21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPeople v. Sutherland
Relationships
Relies on Board of Supervisors v. . Ellis · People v. . Wood · Lehmeyer v. . Moses
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a bill represents a charge illegal upon its face, the audit does not affect its character. In that event its validity may be controverted notwithstanding the audit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That it does not extend so far as to embrace the audit of charges illegal upon their face or charges clearly prohibited by law.””
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.