Bayer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2004
16 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 4401
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · James v. United States · United States v. Sullivan · Rutkin v. United States · City of St. Louis v. Butler Co.
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.
“In 1970 the people of South Dakota amended Article III, Section 25 of our constitution by adding a proviso authorizing games of chance by public-spirited organizations. If it be the will of the people to license, tax and thus authorize privately operated games of chance, that likewise requires further amendment. It cannot be done by the legislature. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bayer“There is good authority that where the appellate court has jurisdiction on other grounds it may decide a constitutional question on its own motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lanier“We would be less than supportive if we failed to meet that which is constitutionally offensive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lanier
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.