In re Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1957
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grant of power to attach existing though unorganized counties to judicial districts, carries no implication of a denial of power to so attach undivided territory. There is nothing exclusive in such grant, i.e., nothing excluding the exercise of similar power upon different objects, and under different conditions.” (p. 635.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true the constitution nowhere in terms authorizes the attaching of such territory, but it is also true that it nowhere, directly or indirectly, prohibits such attaching; and, if there be no prohibition directly or by implication, then the act is within the general grant of legislative power.” (p. 634.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Weiss
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.