State v. Emerson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2001
22 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 Caples v. Cole · Clendaniel v. Conrad · Coleman v. Rhodes · Becker v. State · State v. Emerson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" § 19. Local or special laws relating to fences, live stock, ditches, school districts, and roads, highways, streets, etc. "Section 19. The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law relating to * * * the laying out, opening, alteration, maintenance or vacation, in whole or in part of any road, highway, street, lane or alley * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tusso v. Smith · Tusso v. Smith“From the earliest times the full and entire jurisdiction over roads and highways has been exercised by the Legislature of this State.... Prior to the Constitution of 1897 the Legislature repeatedly and on numerous occasions provided by special Act for certain roads, and named in the Act of Assembly those persons who were to act as commissioners to carry the Act into effect.... This control [over highways] is often delegated. through the instrumentality of local governmental subdivisions and, at times, as toll roads by private to quasiprivate cor porations which have been created or governed by legislative acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scureman v. Judge““We now come to the third and last question presented by the Relator, vis.: “ ‘as to whether or not the Act is invalid as being an encroachment upon the executive powers of the State which are vested by the Constitution in the Governor.’ “The Court, as presently constituted, considered this -question in State ex rel Morford v. Emerson, [ 1 Terry 233 ] 8 A. 2d 154 . We adhere to the views there expressed and shall not unduly enlarge upon them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Shaw
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.