State v. Sappington’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Baker v. Baker (1955), Auffenberg v. Hafley (1970)
28 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 City of St. Louis v. Butler Co. · State v. LOUIS UNION TRUST CO. · Ingle v. City of Fulton · Phillips Pipe Line Co. v. Brandstetter · Kays v. Fisher
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To present a constitutional question for review on the ground .that a statute is unconstitutional, the constitutionality of the statute must be directly challenged. To say that a statute would be unconstitutional if construed in a certain manner does not meet the requirement.' To vest appellate jurisdiction here on a constitutional issue, the attack on the constitutionality of a statute must be that whatever it means and under any construction of which it- is susceptible, it is ■unconstitutional. ...”
2 later decisions 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.