Wages v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Dearborn v. Johnson (1937), Lash v. State (1943)
44 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 United States v. Fisher · Price v. Forrest · State Ex Rel. Brooks v. Gullatt · Board of Revenue v. Huey · Town of Longview v. City of Crawfordsville
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no sounder rule of construction than is the rule requiring that each section, paragraph, and clause of an act shall be construed as standing in pari materia, and must be construed as a whole when they relate to the same subject-matter, or have the same general purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... accord to the lawmaking body of the state government sincerity of purpose and fairness in dealing with the people of the state.”
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.