In re Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1964
11 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 Barto v. . Himrod · State v. . Partlow · State v. Parker · State v. Hunter · Phœnix Insurance v. Welch
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The writer, speaking for himself alone, is firmly of the opinion that the principle of direct legislation is the wiser and more democratic principle, and would like to see it incorporated into the political system of the country. He nevertheless joins with his associates in holding that the above-quoted act is inoperative and void. Our view, however, is not affected by the consideration that the enactment may be regarded as an application of the referendum principle, or as a delegation of legislative power, but by the fact that its principal provisions are so irreconcilable and absolutely contradictory of one another as to prevent the act from having any meaning or effect whatever.” (p. 800.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Law is a rule of action, and it comes into being and goes out of being in obedience only to the legislative will, and during the time of its existence it is not the subject of experiment, of trying on and putting off. It is not a thing to be suspended, to be hung up for a day, the while something else is tried. It can be got rid of only by unconditional repeal.” (p. 805.)”
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.