State Ex Rel. Wright v. Headrick’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2013
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 State Ex Rel. Ward v. Henry · Merrill v. Phelps · Pioneer Real Estate Co. v. City of Portland · Fales v. Multnomah County · State v. Malcom
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.
““Conceding that the increased duties-required of sheriffs have substantially increased the expenses of their office,, without more positive and direct declaration in the amendatory acts than appear, such is not sufficient reason to conclude-that the legislature intended to increase-the cost of these license fees to drivers.. The provisions of the county budget law,, sec. 30-1205, I.C.A., afford sufficient avenue of escape from lack of funds to finance the additional burden. “It may have been that the legislature-considered that a saving would be made-by reduction in the corresponding expenses in the department of law enforcement, as we note that the appropriation for that department in 1941 was some-$611,264 as compared to $510,703 in 1943. While it might be considered unfair to make this saving as to state expenditures at the expense of the counties, the same was a matter for the legislature to consider and over which they had plenary power.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Swensen
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.