Sonneman v. Hickel’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2022
24 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Dorchy v. State of Kansas · State v. Alex · Lynden Transport, Inc. v. State · Jefferson v. State · Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. LeResche
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any law ... enacted by the Alaska legislature which lacks a severability clause shall be construed as though it contained the- clause in the following language ""If any provision of this Act .. is held invalid, the remainder ... shall not be affected thereby.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[Tlhe more special funds [that] are set up the more difficult it becomes to deny other requests until the point is reached where neither the governor nor the legislature has any real control over the finances of the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the proceeds of any state tax or license shall not be dedicated to any special purpose.”
2 later decisions 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.