Depascale v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
3
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · Usery v. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. · Perrin v. United States · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. LTV Corp. · United States v. Price
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“point to another high court in any jurisdiction with a similar constitutional no-diminution clause that has upheld legislation reducing the take-home salary or compensation of judges during their appointment to office, by compelling greater pension or health care contributions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGlynn v. State“'the words employed [in the Constitution] have been carefully measured and weighed to convey a certain and definite meaning, with as little as possible left to implication . . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The United States Supreme Court has never given any signal that even an indirect reduction in a judge's salary during the term of his appointment would be tolerable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McGlynn v. State
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.