Spearman v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2025
13 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 Manning, Commissioner of Finance v. Sims · Dixon v. Shaw · Tate v. Logan · State ex rel. Payne v. Reeves · Application of Oklahoma Capitol Improvement Auth.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing the constitutionality of a statute, the Supreme Court is not authorized to consider its propriety, desirability, wisdom, or its practicability as a working proposition. Those questions are clearly and definitely established by our fundamental law to a certainty as functions of the legislative department of government. The function of the court is clearly limited to the determination of the validity or invalidity of the Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Breeden v. Nigh““The Oklahoma Constitution vests in the Legislature the supreme power to enact laws to meet the needs of the State and its acts should be upheld unless plainly and clearly within the express prohibitions and limitations fixed by the Constitution. There is a presumption that the act is constitutional." (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Breeden v. Nigh“The courts have made a distinction between official expenses and personal expenses and concur that the Legislature has the power to appropriate public funds for the official expenses of all departments of the state government.”
1 later decision 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.