Johnson v. Laffoon’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1994 · most notably State ex rel. Green v. Collison (1938), Hill v. Taylor (1936)
25 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 Donahue v. County of Will · Culver v. People ex rel. Kochersperger · Eckloff v. District of Columbia · Sewell v. Bennett · Gaston v. Lamkin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘Statutes which refer to other statutes and make them applicable to the subject of legislation are called ‘reference statutes,’ and are a familiar and valid mode of legislation. The general rule is that when a statute is adopted by a specific descriptive reference, the adoption takes the statute as it exists at that time, and the subsequent amendment thereof would not be within the terms of the adopting act. But when the language of the adopting act is such as to evidence an intention on the part of the Legislature that the act as it then existed and as it might thereafter be amended was to be adopted, then the courts will give effect to that intention, and the adopted act and amendments thereto will be held to be within the meaning of the adopting act and to govern the subject-matter thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unless otherwise provided, all persons appointed to an office by the Governor, whether to fill a vacancy, or as an original appointment, shall hold office subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, which body shall take appropriate action upon such appointments at its first session held thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . .a court or vest . . . [it] with judicial functions contrary to the requirements of our Constitution as to the separation of powers of government.” Johnson v. Laffoon, 257 Ky. 156 , 77 S. W.2d 345, 350 (1934).”
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.