Christopherson v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2015
20 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Fergus v. Russel · State ex rel. Weldon v. Thomason · McCoy v. Handlin · Milwaukee County v. Halsey · State ex rel. Coffin v. Atherton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“members of the Legislature shall receive no other pay or perquisites except per diem and mileage”
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.