State v. Silver Bow Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014
18 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 M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Leisy v. Hardin · Gilman v. Philadelphia · Sonneborn Bros. v. Cureton · Ware v. Hylton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there are authorities to the contrary, it is said by the text-writers that the ‘better rule’ and ‘the decided weight of authority’ is that an amendatory statute, which purports to amend a statute ‘which for any reason has been declared invalid,’ constitutes a valid enactment. Lewis’ Sutherland on Statutory Construction (2d Ed.) 435; 36 Cyc. 1055; 25 R.C.L. sec. 158.””
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.