Payne v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2011
8 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 Woodall v. Darst · Sipple v. . the State · Munro v. . State of New York · State ex rel. Morris v. Handlin · Mackey v. Reeves
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature is vested with a large discretion which cannot be controlled by the courts. If it does not clearly appear from the act and appropriation that it is for a purely private purpose, the court cannot so decide. If any reasonable doubt exists as to whether it is for a public or private purpose, the court must uphold the legislative act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torigian v. Saunders
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.