State Ex Rel. Haskell v. Huston’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 29 Cal. 3d 150 - People Ex Rel. Deukmejian v. Brown (1981), Hendrick v. Walters (1993)
59 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Chisholm, Ex'r. v. Georgia · Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Martin v. Mott · Texas v. White
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The executive authority of the state shall be vested in a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor, Attorney General, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Examiner and Inspector, Chief Mine Inspector, Commissioner of Labor, Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, Commissioner of Insurance and other officers provided by law and this Constitution, each of whom shall keep his office and public records, books and papers at the seat of government, and shall perform such duties as may be designated in this Constitution or prescribed by law.”.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Governor of the state is the executive of it. It is one of his duties, among many others, to see that the laws of the state are executed and obeyed. That is a great and fundamental duty, without the proper observance of which society might, and would necessarily be, greatly distracted, and the proper security of life, liberty, and property seriously endangered for the purpose of enforcing the execution of the laws and the protection of the state from rebellion and invasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. Conner““* * * ‘When requested’ should be ‘if requested,’ thereby making the right of the Attorney General to bring a suit in the name'of the state in the district court to depend, as a condition precedent, upon executive discretion to be exercised by the Governor. We are clearly of the opinion that the word ‘when,’ as used in this connection, means no more than ‘in case’ or ‘if,’ and this construction is supported by the authorities (citing them).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.