Leek v. Theis’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Brown v. Wichita State University (1976), Samsel v. Wheeler Transport Services, Inc. (1990)
11 district · 106 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Baker v. Carr · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Long-standing and well established rules of this court are that the constitutionality of a statute is presumed, that all doubts must be resolved in favor of its validity, and before the statute may be stricken down, it must clearly appear the statute violates the constitution. Moreover, it is the court's duty to uphold the statute under attack, if possible, rather than defeat it, and if there is any reasonable way to construe the statute as constitutionally valid, that should be done. ( State, ex rel., v. Fadely, 180 Kan. 652, 658, 659 , 308 P.2d 537 ; Wall v. Harrison, 201 Kan. 600, 603 , 443 P.2d 266 ; Moore v. Shanahan, 207 Kan. 645, 651 , 486 P.2d 506 ; and 16 Am.Jur.2d, Constitutional Law, § 175, pp. 399-401.)" Leek v. Theis, 217 Kan. 784, 792-93 , 539 P.2d 304 (1975).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Randol · State v. Meinert“"When an act of a state legislature is assailed as void, it is only necessary to look to the federal and state constitutions for a specific restriction on that power. Thus an act of a state legislature on a rightful subject of legislation, is valid unless prohibited by the federal or state constitution...."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Kansas law clearly establishes the incumbent to a public office enjoys no property or vested interest in public office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.