Scudder v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986), City of Philadelphia v. Commonwealth (2003)
2 district · 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 105 N.J. Eq. 134 - In Re Hague · Southwark Bank v. Commonwealth
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the joint resolution went through the mode of passage prescribed by the Constitution for bills, does not supply the constitutional deficiencies of its conception. The purpose of the constitutional requirements relating to the enactment of laws was to put the members of the Assembly and others interested, on notice, by the title of the measure submitted, so that they might vote on it with circumspection. What was attempted to be done by the sponsers of this challenged measure was something utterly alien to the proper subject matter of a ‘joint resolution.’ Its deceptive nomenclature is fatal to its validity as a law. [The court’s italics.]” Scudder v. Smith, 331 Pa. 165 , 200 Atl. 601 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A bill is the draft or form of an act presented to the legislature, but not enacted.”
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.