Rippe v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Ohio v. Helvering (1934), 58 Wis. 2d 32 - State Ex Rel. Hammermill Paper Co. v. La Plante (1973)
55 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Budd v. People of State of New York · Comm'rs of Leavenworth Co. v. Miller · Blair v. County of Cuming · State v. Donaldson · Township of Burlington v. Beasley
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The time was when the policy was to confine the functions of government to the limits strictly necessary to secure the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. The old Jeffersonian maxim was that the country is governed the best that is governed the least. At present, the tendency is all the other way, and towards socialism and paternalism in government.... The wisdom of such a policy is not for the courts. The people are supreme, and, if they wish to adopt such a change in the theory of government, it is their right to do so. But in order to do it they must amend the constitution of the state. The present constitution was not framed on any such lines."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * it was not supposed that it was proper or competent for the state to embark in any public improvements, except such as strictly pertained to its proper governmental functions.” (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Visina v. Freeman“subject to the limitations imposed by the constitution; and, whenever it has clearly transcended those limitations,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cruz-Guzman v. State
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.