Brookings County v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1981
13 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 Walker v. Jameson · Doughterty v. Austin · Newland v. Marsh · The People Ex Rel. Sinkler v. . Terry · People ex rel. Moloney v. Kirk
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That while the Legislature may not divest itself of its proper functions, or delegate its general legislative authority, it may still authorize others to do those things which it might properly, yet cannot understandingly or advantageously, do itself. * * * The object to be accomplished may be specified, and the rest left to the agency of others, with better opportunities of accomplishing the object or doing the thing understandingly.””
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.