Acker v. Adamson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · Ex parte Dickens · Keck v. Keck
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.
“It is elementary that the legislative power of state legislatures is unlimited except as limited by the State or Federal Constitutions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“deals only with such radical defects as render the proceeding or judgment absolutely void.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madetzke v. Dooley
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.