Thomas v. Buchanan County’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1980
21 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 Glaser v. Rothschild · Cain v. Garvey · Lynch v. Murphy · McNeeley v. South Penn Oil Co. · State v. Burgdoerfer
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the legislature may make reasonable classification among the various subjects of legislation must be conceded, and since the presumptions are all in favor of the validity of its acts `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“some underlying motive not expressed or disclosed in a legislative act cannot be treated as the subject of the act.”
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.