State Ex Rel. Grigsby v. Ostroot’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2022
19 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 White Eagle Oil & Refining Co. v. Gunderson · State ex rel. Payne v. Reeves · Schomer v. Scott · State Ex Rel. Jensen v. Kelly · Putnam v. Pyle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No member of the Legislature shall, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed or elected to any civil office in the state which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during the term for which he was elected, * * *."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t was the clear purpose of the [1946] amendment to authorize the legislature to fix the salary of its members, and as a practical matter should we hold that after fixing the salary that every member of that legislature would be ineligible for re-election, the result would simply be that the salary would not be fixed, especially is this true in view of the requirement of the two-thirds vote. Certainly if it were not the intention to render ineligi ble a legislator who increased - his own salary from running for re-election, it was not the intention to render a member of the legislature which voted an increase for some other office, in the same class so far as salaries are concerned as that of the legislator, ineligible to run for such office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the whole concept of fixing salaries of constitutional officers * * * was altered.”
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.