Flaska v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. New Mexico State Corp. Commission (1977), City of Farmington v. Fawcett (1992)
78 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 United States v. Classic · Maxwell v. Dow · A. Magnano Co. v. Hamilton · Lake County v. Rollins · Bank of Commerce v. State of Tennessee City of Memphis Same
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is presumed that the people expressed themselves in careful and measured terms in framing the constitution and that they left as little as possible to implication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Perhaps some soldiers who live in and entered military service from New Mexico and served during the present war will be denied benefit of the exemption because of the requirement that residence in the state must have been acquired before 1934 to be eligible for the bounty * * *. If it sees fit to do so, the legislature has authority to act again * * to meet and provide for conditions which may have grown up since the exemption statute in question was passed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The language of a Constitution is not to be limited to the precise things considered therein, hut it embraces other things as they come into being of the same general nature or class.’ * * * “ ‘ * * * Accordingly, it should not receive too narrow or literal an interpretation, but rather the meaning given it should be applied in such a manner as to meet new or changed conditions as they arise.’ ””
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.