Roeschlein v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Taxpayers Lobby of Indiana, Inc. v. Orr (1974), Tibbs v. State (1970)
38 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 Warren v. Indiana Telephone Co. · Book v. State Office Building Commission · Jones v. State · Parvin v. Wimberg · Ellingham v. Dye
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is settled law in this state that, when an enrolled act is authenticated by the signatures of the presiding officers of the two houses, it will be conclusively presumed that the same was enacted in conformity with all the requirements of the Constitution, and that the enrolled bill contains the act as it actually passed, and it is not allowable to look to the journals of the two houses, or to other extrinsic sources, for the purpose of attacking its validity or the manner of its enactment. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[C]ourts may examine journals of the Senate and the House [] where a statute is ambiguous and in order to determine its true meaning, the journals are examined for legislative intent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[IJn 1869 the doctrine of determining the validity of the action of the General Assembly by reference to its legislative journals was swept away like a sand castle in a flood tide of contrary judicial pronouncements, beginning with the landmark case of Evans v. Browne (1869) 30 Ind. 514 followed by . . . Indiana Supreme Court decisions to the same effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Owens v. State
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.