State v. Merdinger’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
March 2008
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Lambert v. People of the State of California · Shevlin-Carpenter Company v. State of Minnesota · State v. Robinson · State v. Greenfield
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party who challenges the constitutionality of a statute `bears the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt and we indulge in every presumption in favor of the statute's constitutionality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the legislative history of the statute reveals that it was intended to assure the orderly payment of wages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.