Davis v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2020
10 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 Veterans' Welfare Board v. Jordan · Stanley v. Jeffries · Boughton v. Price · County of San Diego v. Hammond · Krebs v. Board of Trustees
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Further, the enactment is not invalidated, in the light of its public purpose, merely because the obligation of the state in relation to the subject matter of such legislation is a moral rather than a mandatory one, Gem Irrigation District v. Gallet, 43 Idaho 519 , 253 P. 128 ; Newland v. Child, supra; 81 C.J.S. States § 133, p. 1150; 42 Am.Jur. Public Funds, sec. 621, p. 763, nor by the fact that a private individual or organization may benefit thereby. " (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Moreover, the appropriation act here under consideration is saved from conflict with Idaho Const. art. VIII, sec. 2, providing that, `The credit of the state shall not, in any manner, be given, or loaned to, or in aid of any individual, association, municipality or corporations * * *.' by the fact that such enactment is for a public purpose. (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legislature has unlimited power to legislate where legislation is not prohibited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.