State v. Rorvick’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1983
4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1154 · 18 U.S.C. § 1161 · 8 U.S.C. § 1401 (§ 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Mugler v. State of Kansas State of Kansas Tufts · United States v. Fred Nice · Duncan Townsite Do v. Lane · Crane v. Campbell · United States v. Holliday
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the statute can be sustained as constitutional it is because it is a reasonable exercise of the police power of the state. Under the law generally that power extends to legislation enacted to promote the public health, safety, morals and general welfare. It has rightly been said that ‘Such [police] regulations may validly be imposed if they constitute a reasonable exertion of governmental authority for the public good. If there is a proper legislative purpose, a law enacted to carry out that purpose, if not arbitrary nor discriminatory, must be upheld by the courts.’ [Citation.] However, in the exercise of the police power the law places limits on the discretion of the legislature. 'Whether there has been a reasonable exercise of this power is a court question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weller v. Hopper
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.