State ex rel. Scott v. Dirckx’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II (1955), Sexton ex rel. Kin v. Newark District Telegraph Co. (1913)
31 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 Shreveport v. Cole · Kitchen v. Greenabaum · Leete v. State Bank · State ex rel. Harrison v. Frazier · State ex rel. Flickinger v. Fisher
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, however that may be, it must be borne in mind that, in endeavoring to reach the meaning of the provision under consideration, there is a well-settled rule of interpretation, to wit: `Where no exceptions are made in terms, none will be made by mere implication or construction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The settled rule of construction in this state, applicable alike to the Constitutional and statutory provisions, is that, unless a different intent is evident beyond reasonable question, they are to be construed as having a prospective operation only [citing cases].”
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.