Van Sandt v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 1976
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky v. Limestone County · Couch v. Rodgers · Lisenba v. Griffin · Johnson v. State Ex Rel. City of Birmingham · Talley v. Webster
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No special, private, or local law except a law fixing the time of holding courts, shall be enacted in any case which is provided for by a general law, or when the relief sought can be given by any court of this state; and the courts, and not the legislature, shall judge as to whether the matter of said law is provided for by a general law, and as to whether the relief sought can be given by any court; nor shall the legislature indirectly enact any such special, private, or local law by the partial repeal of a general law.””
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.