State v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State ex rel. Wilkinson v. Lane (1913), 45 Wash. 2d 82 - State Ex Rel. Lemon v. Langlie (1954)
1 federal appellate · 26 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The departments of the government provided for in our State constitution, like most State constitutions, are divided into three general classifications, viz., the executive, judicial, and legislative; and, when an officer is appointed or elected under our system of government, he comes within one of these classes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Salsbury
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.