State ex rel. Whittier v. Safford’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2003
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 Fletcher v. Peck · Ogden v. Saunders · State ex rel. Lucero v. Marron · State ex rel. Delgado v. Sargent
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.
““But if any subject is embraced in any act which is not expressed in its title, only so much of the act as is not so expressed shall be void.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gomez · State v. Miller“('General appropriation bills shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the expense of the executive, legislative and judicial departments, interest, sinking fund, payments on the public debt, public schools, and other expenses required by existing laws.””
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.