Hutchens v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1985
13 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 Day Land & Cattle Co. v. State · In Re Hoffman · Asplund v. Hannett · Kadderly v. Portland · Stevenson v. Colgan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not necessarily follow, and we are far from intending to suggest, that the same conclusiveness we accord to the *Page 18 legislative declaration in this case, involving only the immediate or postponed effect of the statute, is to be given such a declaration as precluding an attack by referendum, when the latter question shall be properly before us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd v. Tierney“That it is necessary for the preservation of the public peace and safety of the inhabitants of the State of New Mexico that the provisions of this Act shall become effective at the earliest possible time, and therefore an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd v. Tierney“Any act necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval, provided it be passed by two-thirds vote of each house and such necessity be stated in a separate section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd v. Tierney
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.