State ex rel. Case v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably 61 Wash. 2d 772 - State Ex Rel. Humiston v. Meyers (1963), Clean v. State (1997)
27 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · Stone v. Mississippi · Atkin v. State of Kansas
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The second power reserved by the people is the referendum, and it may be ordered on any act, bill, law, or any part thereof passed by the legislature, except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, sup port of the state government and its existing public institutions, . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No act, law, or bill subject to referendum shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The framers of the seventh amendment to our state constitution, and the people by its adoption, have, therefore, selected and excepted from the operation'of the referendum, only laws invoking those certain, definite and unquestioned phases of the police power which, in their very nature, may be and usually are emergent — in general terms ‘such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety,’ and specifically such measures as are essential to the preservation of these things, in that government is so essential; namely, laws necessary for ‘support of the state government and its existing public institutions.’ While this last phase of the exception may include some revenue laws and some appropriation laws, that is not the line of cleavage. The clear intention was to include within the exception any and all laws, and only such, as may be necessary for such support.””
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.