State v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson (1995), Bradbury & Stamm Construction Co. v. Bureau of Revenue (1962)
56 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · National Prohibition Cases · State of Rhode Island v. Palmer State of New Jersey · Commonwealth v. Nickerson · State v. Rogers
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t will not be presumed that the people have intended to limit [the legislature's] power or practice by unreasonable or arbitrary restrictions.”
2 later decisions 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.