Trout v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2017
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · Reynolds v. Sims · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Norton v. Shelby County · Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n unconstitutional statute is no law and confers no rights. This is true from the date of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. Solely prospective application of a decision is the exception not the norm because it involves judicial enforcement of a statute after the statute has been found to violate the Constitution and to be void and without effect ab initio[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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