Simon v. Northup’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1950 · most notably Kadderly v. Portland (1903), State ex rel. Bulkeley v. Williams (1896)
1 district · 37 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · People ex rel. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common Council · People Ex Rel. Board of Commissioners v. Banks · People ex rel. McCagg v. Mayor of Chicago · Cook v. Port of Portland
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.
““The subject or general object of the law in question, as expressed in its title, is the acquisition, control, and management of certain specified bridges and ferries across the Willamette River at Portland, and the details by which it is to be accomplished are matters properly connected therewith, and do not constitute more than one subject within the meaning of the Constitution.””
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.