People v. Leddy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2021
1 district · 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 Spangler v. Jacoby · Board of Supervisors of Schuyler County v. People ex rel. Rock Island & Alton Railroad · Ames v. People ex rel. Temple · In re Appropriations by General Assembly · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Buckley
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.
“As every enrolled bill, signed by the proper officers and lodged with the Secretary of State, however repugnant to the Constitution, has the appearance, semblance, and force of law, the general rule is that public officials shall obey its terms until some one, whose rights it invades, complains, and calls in the aid of the judicial power to pronounce it void as to him, his property, or his rights.”
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.