Hall v. Baum’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2006
12 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · 16 Utah 2d 61 - Shields v. Toronto · Willis v. Potts · State Ex Rel. Grigsby v. Ostroot · 74 So. 2d 114 - State Ex Rel. West v. Gray
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any member of the legislature who is appointed or elected to any civil office in the state, the emoluments of which have been increased during his legislative term of office, shall be compensated for the initial term of the civil office at the level designated prior to the increase in emoluments. Wash. Const, art. II, § 13.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Meyer“If Sec. 18, Art. Ill, has outlived its usefulness and there is no longer need for the proscriptions there provided, as some of the courts of other states have indicated, the Constitution itself prescribes the remedy through a constitutional amendment submitted to and adopted by the people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Meyer“Our analysis of the cited cases from other jurisdictions indicates a total lack of unanimity of thought as to the wisdom of nullifying the constitutional proscriptions with which we are dealing, as well as a lack of unanimity of reasons for their nullification. 452 S.W.2d at 705 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Meyer
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.