Dennis v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott (1981), State v. Harold (1952)
30 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 Hernandez v. Frohmiller · Equitable Credit & Discount Co. v. Geier · Haggard v. Industrial Commission · Board of Control v. Buckstegge · Allen v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ '* * * that the title of a statute need not be a complete index of its provisions, but it is sufficient if it so indicates its substance and scope as reasonably to lead to an inquiry into its content.’ * * * * jJj ‡ ‡ “ * * * that the title is sufficient if it is germane and indicates, in a general way at least, what is to follow in the way of legislation.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`* * * legislation dealing with social and economic problems cannot be expected, and is not constitutionally required, to be of mathematical exactitude. There are bound to be twilight zones furnishing support to critics who cavil at the want of scientific precision in the law. * * *'" Equitable Credit and Discount Co. v. Geier, 342 Pa. 445 , 21 A.2d 53, 56 .”
2 later decisions 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.