Ex parte Wren’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), State ex rel. Reed v. Jones (1893)
24 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 Van Hook v. City of Selma · Green v. Weller · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Mead · Brodnax v. Groom · Evans v. Browne
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fundamental error of any view which permits an appeal to the journals to see if the constitution has been observed in the passage by both houses of their enactments, is the assumed right of the judicial department to revise and supervise the legislative as to the manner of its performance of its appointed constitutional functions. It is the admitted province of the courts to judge and declare if an act of the legislature violates the constitution, but this duty of the courts begins with the completed act of the legislature.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Is an act signed by the governor, after having been signed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives in attestation of the fact that it had passed both houses, the sole evidence of its contents as passed by both houses ... ? 40”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Hooker
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.