Stockman v. Leddy’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands Agoncillo (1928), California v. United States (1978)
22 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 State of Kansas v. State of Colorado · United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co. · Rickey Land Cattle Company v. Miller & Lux Rickey Land & Cattle Company · Bean v. W a Morris · Newman v. People
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he General Assembly not only passed an act — that is, made a law — but it made a joint committee of the Senate and the House as its executive agent to carry out that law. This is a clear and conspicuous instance of an attempt by the General Assembly to confer executive power upon a collection of its own members. This is contrary to article 3 of our Constitution, ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . The [legislature] might well have authorized the Attorney General to expend this money in protecting the rights of the state here involved, and, if it had done so, and the act in other respects had been within the constitutional limit, no question could have been successfully raised as to its validity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McInnish v. Riley“`which said fund [was to] be subject to the use and disposal of said committee, and the Auditor of State [was to] draw warrants therefor upon vouchers approved by said committee and signed by the chairman and secretary thereof.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McInnish v. Riley
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.