State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2021
22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · United States v. Realty Co. · Borgnis v. Falk Co. · State ex rel. Davis-Smith Co. v. Clausen
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ For the purpose of this ease, at least, we shall assume that, if the appropriation in question is merely a gift or donation, it is void, not alone because it is expressly prohibited by the sections of the Constitution referred to, but also because the purpose of such appropriation would then be private, and not public, for it is elementary that the Legislature cannot levy a tax or make an appropriation except only for public purposes, and this is true whether the Constitution so expressly provides or not.””
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.