Ex Parte Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1950
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In so far as the city council may assume to grant or refuse such a permit, their action is administrative rather than judicial. Their decision in such matters is not binding in the sense of a judgment of a Court. The application for a permit is ex parte. If objection be offered, that does not raise a controversy between the petitioner and the objector which is submitted to the judicial authority of the city council. As the city council was not acting in the capacity of a Court in the premises, there was no case before the city council for *Page 383 which a right of appeal is saved in Article 5, § 15, of the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cases within the jurisdiction of inferior Courts.”
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.