State v. Schenk’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably State v. Williams (1970), State v. Washington (1912)
28 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 State ex rel. Hawes v. Mason · Ex parte Lucas · State ex rel. Kenamore v. Wood · State ex inf. Hadley v. Washburn · State v. Orrick
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ We regard as significant the fact that notwithstanding the construction which has been put upon these laws by the decisions of this court referred to, by the acts of the various Governors making appointments, and by the certificates contained in the official publication of the session acts, the Legislature, in 1909, adopted the same phraseology in the declaratory act, and also in the general act concerning the time when laws should go into effect. According to the ordinary rules of construction, it must be held that the Legislature re-enacted these laws with the construction which had been so placed upon them. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In 1909 the Secretary of State in his certification (Laws 1909, p. 920) makes this statement: `The Legislature having adjourned the 17th day of May, the laws, not revision measures, and without emergency clauses, go into effect Monday, August 16, 1909. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“ninety days after the Legislature adjourned.”
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.