Bridges v. Shallcross’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 1966 · most notably Slack v. Jacob (1875), 132 W. Va. 580 - State Ex Rel. Bumgardner v. Mills (1949)
1 federal appellate · 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 Rogers v. Goodwin · Dow v. Norris · Sharpe v. Robertson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither shall exercise the powers properly belonging to either of the others; nor shall any person exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time, except that justices of the peace shall be eligible to the Legislature."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Constitution of a State is a limitation upon the powers of the legislative department of the government, but it is to be regarded as a grant of powers to the other departments. Neither the executive nor the judiciary, therefore, can exercise any authority or power except such as is clearly granted by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“with the advice and consent of the senate.”
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.