State Ex Rel. Shepard v. Mechem’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2011
18 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 Ervien v. United States · Lake Arthur Drainage Dist. v. Field · State v. Marron · United States v. Ervien · Bryant v. Board of Loan Commissioners
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of constitutionality is frequently interposed by a petitioner or relator in mandamus where he claims that a statute or ordinance which, if valid, would excuse the respondent from performing the duty or act in question is invalid. There seems to be no reason why the constitutionality of the act thus relied on may not be raised in such manner and most courts have taken this view.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is in the Enabling Act a specific enumeration of the purposes for which the lands were granted and the enumeration is necessarily exclusive of any other purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be by the said state held in trust, to be disposed of in whole or in part only in manner as herein provided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.