Mayhew v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair (2002), 181 Ill. 2d 153 - R.W. Dunteman Co. v. C/G Enterprises Inc. (1998)
41 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 People Ex Rel. Rodgers v. . Coler · The People v. Federal Surety Co. · People ex rel. Hoyne v. Sweitzer · People Ex Rel. Travis v. Rogier
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A law must be complete in all its terms and conditions when it leaves the legislature, so that every person may know, by reading the law, what his rights are and how it will operate when put into execution. [Citations.] While it is the duty of the courts to ascertain the meaning of and to give effect to every valid act of the legislature, yet they cannot supply omissions or remedy defects in matters committed to the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyerson v. Carter
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.