State v. Ehrlick’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Pompano Horse Club, Inc. v. State Ex Rel. Bryan (1927), Better Government Bureau, Inc. v. McGraw (1997)
35 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · In re Debs · Mullan v. United States · Sheridan v. Colvin · Commonwealth v. McGovern
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he office of Attorney General is of very ancient origin, and its duties and powers were recognized by the common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.