State v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Amos v. Mathews (1930), State Ex Rel. Nuveen v. Greer (1924)
2 federal appellate · 132 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Field v. Clark · Hagar v. · Shoemaker v. United States · Maxwell v. Dow · Stone v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Each law enacted in the Legislature shall embrace but one subject and matter properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the title; and no law shall be amended or revised by reference to its title only; but in such case the act, as revised, or section, as amended, shall be re-enacted and published at length."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the courts... should always apply a liberal rule, and refuse to declare [the legislature's] action void, except in clear cases that are free from every reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]mplification of the title to an act ... does not vitiate such title or subject it to the criticism of having dealt with two distinct or incongruous subjects.”
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.