Harpending v. Haight’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 32 Cal. 2d 351 - Hollman v. Warren (1948), 20 Cal. 3d 765 - State of South Dakota v. Brown (1978)
38 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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. McCauley & Tevis v. Brooks · People ex rel. Billings v. Bissell · Fowler v. Peirce · Middleton v. Low · Chamberlain v. Sibley
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it (the Senate) has adjourned for the day, or for three days, it still has an organized existence as a legislative body, with its president, secretary and other officers, to whom, under such circumstances, a substitutional delivery of the bill and message might be made, and whose official duty it would be to place the bill and message before the Senate at as early a time as might be thereafter. Such a return, as we have said, would be the only one permitted by the circumstances;- and when the bill should afterwards actually reach the Senate, it would then proceed to reconsider it, as required by the Constitution in that respect. “But when a final adjournment of the Legislature has occurred, there is an end to the organized existence of the Senate.. It has no longer officers to represent it for any purpose; nor could the bill, in the nature of things, ever be brought to its attention, for it would not be in session thereafter, nor be reconsidered by it, which is the purpose to be attained, for it would be itself no longer existing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every Bill which has passed both Houses of the Legislature, and shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days, having thereby become a Law, shall be authenticated by the Governor, causing the fact to be certified thereon by the Secretary of State, in the following form: “This Bill having remained with the Governor ten days, (Sundays excepted,) and the Senate and Assembly being in session, it has become a Law, this_day of _, A.D. which certificate shall be signed by the Secretary of State, and deposited with the Laws in his Office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It seems to have been the opinion of the late Mr. Justice Story (Com. on the Constitution, Section 891), that the only adjournment which could prevent the Federal Executive from returning a biil Avithin the time prescribed, must be an adjournment amounting to 'a termination of the session.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.