Walker v. Omdahl’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2000
15 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 Great Northern Ry Co v. Sunburst Oil & Refining Co · Shapiro v. Wilgus · Johnson v. Hassett · Kitto v. Minot Park District · Manning, Commissioner of Finance v. Sims
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"1. A law enacted by the Legislature is presumed to be constitutional, unless it is shown that it is manifestly violative of the organic law. "2. The courts will construe statutes so as to harmonize their provisions with the Constitution if it is possible to do so, to the end that they may be sustained. "3. Every presumption is in favor of the propriety and constitutionality of legislation, and improper motives in its enactment are never imputed to the Legislature."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"... we must conclude that expenses beyond the allowances for expenses in the previous session of the Legislature which exceed amounts reasonably necessary to cover increases in the cost of living are salary, and thus violative of Section 84 of the Constitution." [The reference to Section 84 relates to the prohibition which is now Article V, Section 14.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Section 14. Salaries of public officers shall be as prescribed by law, but the salaries of any of the said officers shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected, and all fees and profits arising from any of the said offices shall be covered into the state treasury."”
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.