State ex rel. Wegner v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2021
13 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 State ex rel. Blakeslee v. Clausen · State ex rel. Brislawn v. Meath · State ex rel. Bonner v. Dixon · State ex rel. Richards v. Whisman · Hodges v. Snyder
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public, peace, health, or safety, support of the state government and its existing public institutions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This language is plain, and leaves no room for construction either strict or liberal * * *".”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Article III, § 1] is quite plain in its language, which must be construed according to its import where there is no ambiguity. Though it may have been an experiment in government and the product of extremists in turbulent times, it cannot be ignored. The fact that more conservative men are unable to suggest a construction in accord with their views of conservative government is evidence that its language is not ambiguous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brendtro v. Nelson
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.