State ex rel. Spriggs v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably State v. McMaster (1971), 66 Cal. App. 157 - Goldsmith v. Board of Education of Sacramento City High School District (1924)
39 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 Hewitt v. Board of Medical Examiners · Ex parte McNulty · Ex parte Jackson · City of St. Louis v. J. E. Kaime & Brother Real Estate Co. · State v. Smith
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a well-recognized rule that where a law specifically designates several matters or things which shall be governed by its provisions, and then by general language undertakes to include other aets and things not specifically named,, such law must be so construed as to apply only to things or acts of the same general nature as those definitely set out.””
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.