Swann v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1946 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), Oklahoma News Co. v. Ryan (1924)
1 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Green v. Weller · Conner v. Mayor · Benford v. Gibson · Succession of McGill · State v. Smedes
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is necessary that every law should show on its face the authority by which it is adopted and promulgated, and that it should clearly appear that it is intended by the legislative power that enacts it that it should take effect as a law. These conditions being fulfilled, all that is absolutely necessary is expressed. The word ‘ resolved ’ is as potent to declare the legislative will as the word ‘enacted.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is to be inferred that a Code of statutes relating to one subject was governed by one spirit and policy, and was intended to be consistent and harmonious in its several parts and provisions. It is therefore an established rule of law that all acts in pari materia are to be taken together, as if they were one law, and they are directed to be compared in the construction of statutes, because they are considered as framed upon one system, and having one object in view.””
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.