State v. Bunting’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1944
2 district · 11 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · Munn v. Illinois · Joseph Lochner v. People of the State of New York
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is also a maxim of constitutional law that a legislature is presumed to have acted within constitutional limits, upon full knowledge of the facts and with the purpose of promoting the interests of the people as a whole, and courts will not lightly hold that an act duly passed by the legislature was one in the enactment of which it has transcended its power.' The legislature is the exclusive judge of the propriety and necessity of legislative interference within, the scope of legislative power. If a state of facts could exist which would justify legislation, it would be presumed that it did exist ...” State v. Bunting, 71 Or. 259 , L.R.A. 1917-C, 1162, 1165.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person shall be employed in any mill, factory or manufacturing establishment in this state more than ten hours in any one day, except watchmen and employees when engaged in making necessary repairs, or in case of emergency, where life or property is in imminent danger; provided, hoivever, employees may work overtime not to exceed three honrs in any one day, conditioned that payment be made for said overtime at the rate of time and one-half the regular wage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.