Statman v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
4
states following
September 1976
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Public Service Commission v. United States · Rockland Light and Power Co. v. City of New York · People v. . Mills · In re Molineux · Harmon v. United States
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow the precedent would constitute a gross disregard of orderly procedures in legally constituted forums by duly provided methods. The commands of a government of laws require that this court confine its acts within the scope of judicial power recognizing the co-equal powers of the other branches of the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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