Scharf v. Tasker’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Painter v. Mattfeldt (1913), Atkinson v. Sapperstein (1948)
37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that every law enacted by the General Assembly shall embrace but one subject, and that shall be described in its title.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. McKenzie“has nothing at all to do with the object and purpose of the statute, and is manifestly not described in the title.”
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.