State v. Dalon’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Polk v. Edwards (1993), Chickasha Cotton Oil Co. v. Lamb & Tyner (1911)
27 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. Klokke v. Wright · State ex rel. Cothren v. Lean · Remsen v. . the People · Sibley v. . Waffle
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An act is general within the meaning of the Constitution, which, in its subject, relates to all the people of the state, or their property, though its operation be not equally applicable to all the parts of the state. Local laws are such as are confined to the persons and property both of a special locality. Kerrigan v. Force, 9 Hun (N. Y.) 185.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Donato
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.