Schireson v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Smith v. Department of Registration & Education (1952), 120 Ill. App. 3d 1060 - Bartimus v. Paxton Community Hospital (1983)
37 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 Interstate Commerce Commission v. Union Pacific Railroad · People Ex Rel. New York & Queens Gas Co. v. McCall · State v. Great Northern Railway Co. · People ex rel. Fensky v. Leinecke · Galpin v. City of Chicago
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the other hand, even though an act professes to be an independent act and does not purport to amend any prior act, still if, in fact, it makes changes in an existing act by adding new provisions and mingling the new with the old on the same subject, so as to make of the old and the new a connected piece of legislation covering the same subject, the later act must be considered an amendment of the former and as within the constitutional prohibition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Demotte v. Demotte
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.