Thompson v. Legislative Audit Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2014
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 State Ex Rel. Chavez v. Evans · Rich v. Williams · Hudson v. Kelly · State ex rel. Clancy v. Hall · State Ex Rel. Witt v. State Canvassing Board
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.
“* * * It would seem to us that, both historically and fundamentally, the office of state auditor was created and exists for the basic purpose of having a completely independent representative of the people, accountable to no one else, with the power, duty and authority to examine and pass upon the activities of state officers and agencies who, by law, receive and expend public moneys. * * * * * * The removal of the duties implicit in the office of state auditor requires us to declare unconstitutional the entire statute. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he [constitutional amendment] was defeated, thus showing that the people were not willing to allow [an amendment] to sanction the legislative [action providing the same as the amendment that] would not only thwart the constitutional provision but would circumvent the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whose duty it is to examine the acts of officers who have received and disbursed public moneys.”
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.