State ex rel. McMaster v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
July 1968
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Saunders · Love v. Baehr · State ex rel. City of Seattle v. Carson · State ex rel. McGrath v. Walker · State Ex Rel. Howell v. LaGrave
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Attorney General is a constitutional officer, the title designates him as the attorney for the state, and his duties, independent of the statute, are those of a law officer. This section of the Code in its specific enumeration of the functions of his office, recognizes the fact that the scope of his duties does not extend beyond law matters."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“attorney general shall be as prescribed by law”
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.