State v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1981
18 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 Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Adair v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * This clause is in our Constitution as the people’s voluntary and studied limitation upon its Legislature. We could have had no purpose except to check the Legislature, as representing the majority for the time being, from encroachment upon this reserved right of the minority or of ■ the individual. Those who complain of such checks are out of sympathy with constitutional government itself.”y”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.