MacLachlan v. McNary’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2003
7 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 Tribune Publishing Co. v. Curators of the University of Missouri
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By enactment of the 1982 amendment to Chapter 610, it is apparent that the Legislature intended to affect the entire administrative decision-making process, not just the formal act of voting for the formal execution of an official document. It is unnecessary that an entity have binding authority for it to be subject to the Sunshine Law. It is within the meaning of the law if its determinations affect the public.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[1] any legislative or administrative governmental entity created by the constitution or statute of this state, by order or ordinance of any political subdivision or district, or by executive order, including any body, agency, board, bureau, council, commission, committee, department, or division of the state, of an political subdivision of the state, of any county or of any municipal government, school district or special purpose district, [2] any other legislative or administrative governmental deliberative body under the direction of three or more elected or appointed members having rule making or quasi-judicial power, [3] any committee appointed by or under the direction or authority of any of the above named entities and which is authorized to report to any of the above named entities, and [4] any quasi-public governmental body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Champ v. Poelker“The courts of this state have been called upon on frequent occasions to interpret the legislative intent underlying Chapter 610. This law reflects Missouri’s commitment to openness in government. It is beyond doubt that the Statute is to be construed liberally in favor of open government. It is the public policy of this State that public commissions exist to aid in the conduct of the people’s business. It is the intent of Chapter 610 that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly.”
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.