State v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Worthington v. State (1979), Utah Construction Co. v. State Highway Commission (1933)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Citizens' Telephone Co. v. Fuller · People v. Westchester County National Bank · Estate of Stanford · Board of Supervisors v. State · Williams v. Evans
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A state government is an independent existence, representing the sovereignty of the people. The power of the Legislature is the power of that sovereignty, and, as a general proposition, is supreme in all respects and unlimited in all matters pertaining to legitimate legislation... .'" State v. Snyder, 29 Wyo. 199, 230 , 212 P. 771, 782 , citing City of Richmond v. Pace, 127 Va. 274 , 103 S.E. 647 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Worthington v. State““The property of the United States, the state, counties, cities, towns, school districts, municipal corporations and public libraries, lots with the buildings thereon used exclusively for religious worship, church parsonages, public cemeteries, shall be exempt from taxation, and such other property as the legislature may by general law provide.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"`... The state governments possess all governmental power not denied to them by the Constitution, and in the absence of a prohibition expressed or necessarily implied they may take all reasonable measures for the promotion of the general welfare. . . .'"”
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.