Kalich v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 1980 · most notably State v. Port of Astoria (1916), City & County of Denver v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1919)
2 district · 25 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 Straw v. Harris · State v. Port of Tillamook · Kiernan v. Portland · Warren v. Crosby · City of Portland v. Nottingham
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by the legislative assembly by special laws. The legislative assembly shall not enact, amend, or repeal any charter or act of incorporation for any municipality, city, or town. The legal voters of every city and town are hereby granted power to enact and amend their municipal charter, subject to the Constitution and criminal laws of the State of Oregon. * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * # * It is true that the court in that decision said, in substance, ‘that the state cannot surrender its sovereignty to the municipalities’. This the state has not done by circumscribing the power of the legislature over municipal charters, as the sovereignty in this state resides in the people. They have retained unto themselves, under the initiative and referendum provision of the Constitution, power to create, amend, or annul a municipal charter, though denying that privilege to their representatives through which they commonly speak.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Gibbons““The rate of speed on all streets, roads and highways of this state shall be a reasonable speed up to and not exceeding twenty-five miles an hour, but any speed in excess of twenty-five miles an hour upon any road or highway of this state shall be an unreasonable speed and is prohibited by this act.””
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.