Chesney v. McClintock’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1942
10 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. Attorney General v. Francis · Darling v. Rodgers · In re Greer · Comm'rs of Leavenworth Co. v. Higginbotham · Midland Elevator Co. v. Stewart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The infirmity of this argument lies in the fact that the law in question did not create a township office. It created a tribunal designated ‘the court of Topeka.’ This the Legislature had authority to do, under section 1, article 3, of the Constitution. It provided by law for a court inferior to the Supreme Court. Whatever name might have been given to it, it is a judicial tribunal, created within the limits of the city of Topeka, which it was within the discretion of the Legislature to establish.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the journals of the two houses may be examined for the purpose of ascertaining whether the legislative branch has expressed its will in accordance with constitutional requirements, yet. a legislative measure which has taken upon itself all the forms and appearances of verity which are. involved in its enrolment in the office of the secretary of state, its certification by the president of the senate and speaker of the house and its approval by the governor, may not be impeached by the legislative journals except when the proof furnished by them is of the clearest, strongest and most undoubted character.” (Page 92.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'“The old question so often raised is again presented: Was it competent for the legislature to determine whether a general law could be made applicable, and whether a special law was necessary? If the question were a new one, the writer of this opinion would be inclined to the view that the courts should determine in each case whether this constitutional restriction had been violated or not; but the question has been put at rest by a long series of decisions holding that the decision of the question is exclusively for the legislature, and not for the courts.’ ” (p. 100.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powers v. Thorn
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.