Walters v. Bindner’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2011
11 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 Rinaldi v. Yeager · Murphy v. People of the State of California · State of Ohio Clarke v. Deckebach · Shaw v. Fox · Schoo v. Rose
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the rule that all presumptions and intendments are in favor of the constitutionality of statutes and, even in cases of reasonable doubt of their constitutionality, they should be upheld and the doubt resolved in favor of the voice of the people as expressed through their legislative department of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Our Legislature has a broad discretion to determine for itself what is harmful to health and morals or what is inimical to public welfare....”
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.