State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2009
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 Kansas City v. Hyde · State ex rel. Halliburton v. Roach · Ely v. City of St. Louis · People ex rel. Murray v. City of St. Louis · Haeussler v. City of St. Louis
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.
“It needs no argument to demonstrate that a legislative act cannot be repealed in whole or in part by an administrative order. Such act can only be repealed by a later legislative act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to institute all necessary legal proceedings for the acquisition”
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.