State v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1987
17 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 State ex rel. Packard v. Nelson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature has construed the provisions of the constitution to the effect that it had the right to provide an official mansion for the governor, and that he had the right to occupy it without contravening the constitutional provisions as to his compensation. That body has the right to construe the constitution, and if the language of that instrument is subject to two equally reasonable interpretations, if the legislature adopt one, the courts will not adopt the other.””
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.