Boyd v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Sullivan v. Stroop · Streight v. Ragland · McCutchen v. Huckabee
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally a provision in a statute or in a municipal charter that it shall not take effect unless it is assented to by a majority or fixed percentage of the inhabitants of the municipality is not invalid as a delegation of legislative power, provided the statute is complete in itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gallas v. Alexander“The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weiss v. Geisbauer
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.