State Ex Rel. Sofeico v. Heffernan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably State Ex Rel. Taylor v. Johnson (1998), Bokum Resources Corp. v. New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (1979)
38 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 Lacoste v. Department of Conservation of State of Louisiana · Ex Parte Lewis · Cawsey v. Brickey · Musgrove a v. Winthrop Parker A. · Ex Parte Kenneke
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * `It is also well settled that it is not always necessary that statutes and ordinances prescribe a specific rule of action, but on the other hand, some situations require the vesting of some discretion in public officials, as, for instance, where it is difficult or impracticable to lay down a definite, comprehensive rule, * * *.'"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.