State Ex Rel. Lashly v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1971
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Rodgers v. United States · Rosecrans v. United States · State ex inf. Crow v. Shepherd · State Ex Rel. Westhues v. Sullivan · State ex rel. Barrett v. Hitchcock
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.
“the people reserve to themselves . . . power at their own option to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A legislative assembly consisting of a senate and house of representatives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to the limitations herein contained,”
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.