Loftin v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1999
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he original purpose of the bill was preserved in the act, but the amendments made by the two houses limited the scope of the bill, by exceptions, and extended it so as to embrace city warrants, etc., with like exceptions . . . The bill, thus limited and extended by amendments of the two houses, in its scope and purpose, but embracing no new matter not germane to its original purpose, became a law . . . To amend a bill for an act regulating attachments, for example, so as to change it into a road, revenue, game, school, or estray law, would be palpably in violation of the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.