State v. Sloane’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1957
5 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * if the characteristics used to distinguish the objects to which the legislation applies from others are not germane to the legislative purpose, or' do not indicate some reasonable appropriateness in its application, or if objects with similar characteristics and like relation to the legislative purpose have been excluded from the operation of the law, then the classification would be incomplete and faulty, and the legislation not general, but local or special.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * This order was a first step in a proceeding which might result in the dismemberment of the municipality, which is the real prosecutor. It was an adjudication by the officer who made it of his right to call the election. When made, the municipality affected had a right to challenge the validity of his adjudication. In this respect the case falls within that class in which a certiorari will lie before final action or judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is obvious, however, that the act of 1878 ought not to be brought into question, unless it is necessary to the decision of the case before us. It seems to have stood unchallenged for nearly nine years. Under its provisions borough governments may have been formed. A decision against its validity might operate most disasterously upon such boroughs without their having an opportunity to be heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.