Ex parte Bustillos’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 1994
24 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 Mahon v. Justice · Ex Parte: in the Matter of William Wells on a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. State · Woodward v. Murdock · Bales v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is the general enacting clause at the beginning of the act, and, under all rules of construction and interpretation, every section from the first to the last is to be held to be enacted by the act. It will be 'immaterial as to the source of the matter included in the act, whether coming from old statutes, decisions of the court, or whether the matter be entirely new.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, the governor shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons, after conviction for all offenses except treason and in cases of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mondragon““The provisions of the foregoing sections (are) taken or adopted. from existing- statutes, (and) shall be construed as continuations thereof, and not as new enactments.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells v. Dice
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.