Sartin v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1998
13 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 People ex rel. Grinnell v. Hoffman · State v. Durein · Von Schmidt v. Widber · In re the Appointment of a Revisor of the Statutes · People v. Evans
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature often uses the words ‘court’ and ‘judge of the court,’ ‘district court’ and ‘judge of the district court’ without discrimination. Whenever the power or duty imposed is found from a consideration of the object and purposes of the act to be one which is more properly the function of the court, it will be so construed, and whenever it is manifest that the legislature meant the judge and not the court, that meaning will be applied to the words in order to carry out the legislative intent. ‘Court’ will always be interpreted to mean ‘judge’ when necessary to carry into effect the intention of the legislature. (Railroad Co. v. McDonald, 79 Miss. 641 , 31 South, 417 ; Porter v. Flick, 60 Neb. 773 , 84 N. W. 262 ; Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511 , 34 Pac. 109 ; Michigan Central Railroad Company v. Northern Indiana Railroad Company, 3 Ind. 239 ; Rogers v. Beauchamp et al., 102 Ind. 33 , 1 N. E. 185 ; Lee County v. Nelson, [Iowa] 4 G. Greene, 348 [where it was said they are convertible terms]; 11 Cyc. 655, 656; 2 Words and Phrases, p. 1678.)””
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.