30 Ala. App. 201 - State v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2002
17 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 Ala Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States · Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan · Parke v. Bradley · Skrmetta v. Alabama Oyster Commission
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the government of this state, except in the instances in this Constitution hereinafter expressly directed or permitted, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them; to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he law making power, invested exclusively in the Legislature, cannot be delegated to any other department of the government, or to any other agency, either public or private.... Official action cannot be made a rule or regulation merely by calling it a rule or regulation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“make reasonable rules and regulations . . . for the best interest of the conservation, protection and propagation of . . . fish . . . which rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law. . . .”
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.