Sawyer v. Dooley’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably In Re County Com'rs of Counties Comprising Seventh Judicial Dist. (1908), Ormsby County v. Kearney (1914)
2 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Davidson v. New Orleans · State Railroad Tax Cases Taylor Collector et al. v. Secor et al. · Cummings v. National Bank · Cincinnati v. Commonwealth of Kentucky Louisville N R Co · Kelly v. Pittsburgh
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the state government as created by the Constitution which is divided into departments. These departments are each charged by other parts of the Constitution with certain duties and functions, and it is to these that the prohibition just quoted refers. 0 * * It would be impossible to administer the state government, were the officers not permitted and required, in many instances, to discharge duties in their nature judicial."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bergman v. Kearney
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.