State v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2000
12 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 Sanborn v. School District No. 10 · State v. Berlin · Mayor of Boonville v. Trigg
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Section 3 of said act furnishes an illustration of what was intended to be forbidden by section 34, article 4 of the constitution. If said section had only contained the words ‘Section 3 of said chapter 186 is hereby amended by striking out the words “assault, battery, affray or other breach of the peace” in the third and fourth lines of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “a misdemeanor,” ’ the amendment would have been in clear violation of said constitutional provision. The object of the prohibition from making amendments in such a way was to prevent the laws from becoming involved in the confusion which would necessarily result from such legislation; and to prevent the inconvenience it would occasion of hunting through various books to find the act amended and then apply to it the amendatory act to ascertain what the law as amended was.””
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.