Biles v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
August 2006
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dandridge v. Williams · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Idaho Department of Employment v. Smith · Com. ex rel. Greene v. Gregg
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the executive, legislative and judicial departments of the Commonwealth, for the public debt and for public schools. All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o be constitutional the language in an appropriation bill must be germane to the appropriations, must not conflict with existing law and it must not extend beyond the life of the appropriations bill itself.”
2 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.