Colbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Colorado General Assembly v. Lamm (1985), 441 So. 2d 1329 - Alexander v. State by and Through Allain (1983)
33 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Governor shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he chief executive power of this State shall be vested in a Governor . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will not be deterred from declaring these principles because of any administrative construction and practice to the contrary. If such practice has grown up under a mistaken conception of the law, it should be at once abandoned. No false construction of the Constitution by any administrative department, however long continued, can ever ripen into law.”
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.