State v. Risjord’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2021
18 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 Dandridge v. Williams · Shapiro v. Thompson · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Olinde v. United States · Manzanares v. Bell
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Cities and other governmental bodies have broad police powers to enact ordinances which regulate and restrict activities in the interest of the health, safely, and welfare of their citizens. [Citation omitted.] It is well settled that governing bodies may properly exercise their police power to limit, control, or regulate the use of public roadways to promote tire safety and general welfare of the people. [Citations omitted.]” State v. Risjord, 249 Kan. 497, 501 , 819 P.2d 638 (1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.