Montgomery v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2015
24 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 People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of Sessions · Borman v. State · Snodgrass v. State · State v. Hockett · Ex parte Knight
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the government of this state, except in the instances in this Constitution hereinafter. . . directed . . ., the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers. . . the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers. . . the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers . . . to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Redwine v. Jackson · Beck 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.