State ex rel. Luley v. Simons’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably State Ex Rel. Ging v. Board of Education (1942), In re Incorporation of Village of North Milwaukee (1896)
43 state decisions — followed in 10 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 People ex rel. Shumway v. Bennett · City of Galesburg v. Hawkinson · State ex rel. Hahn v. Young
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * As said by this court in State v. Young, 29 Minn. 474 , 551 [ 9 N.W. 737 ], it is a principle not questioned that, except when *Page 191 authorized by the constitution, as in respect to municipal corporations, the legislature cannot delegate legislative power. The power of local legislation commonly bestowed on municipal corporations does not trench upon the maxim [legislative powers cannot be delegated], since this is authorized, impliedly at least, by the constitution itself; and the maxim itself is to be understood in the light of an immemorial practice which has always recognized the policy and propriety of vesting in such corporations these powers. As before remarked, municipal corporations are created for this purpose, as aids to the state government in the business of municipal rule. Cooley, Const. Lim. 140.”
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.