Barr v. Blackstone’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1999
6 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 Nichols v. . MacLean · Coleman, Auditor v. Hurst · State ex rel. City of Seattle v. Carson · State v. De Lorenzo · People v. Williams
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law seems to be well settled that Constitutional provisions of the character of article 15, section 4, of the Constitution of this State, will not permit the diminution of an officer’s salary or emoluments after his election or appointment. If such a course were permissible, when a change of administration took place it might happen that the Legislature would reduce the salary of the appointees of the opposing political party. “In 46 Corpus Juris, page 1021, section 254, the following view is expressed: “Constitutional * * * provisions frequently preclude a change in the compensation of an officer either after his election or appointment, or during his term of office. Such provisions are mandatory and prevent either direct or indirect changes”. This proposition is supported by many decided cases. [Citations omitted.] “In 22 Ruling Case Law, page 534, the author uses this language: “A constitutional provision forbidding the change of the compensation of an official during his term of office is inexorable. It admits of no exception and it affords no opportunity for evasion by the Legislature or other body”. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"No law shall extend the term of any public officer or diminish his salary or emoluments after his election or appointment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A constitutional provision forbidding the change of the compensation of an official during his term of office is inexorable. It admits of no exception and it affords no opportunity for evasion by the Legislature or other body."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carper v. Stiftel
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.