Woolf v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Carson v. Maurer (1980), State v. . Harris (1940)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 54 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 The People v. . Marx · Seaboard Air Line Railway v. Seegers · Jones v. Tucker · Faulkner v. Keene · Sundeen v. Rogers
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test usually employed in this State to determine the constitutionality, not of the purpose the legislature had in view when it enacted a statute but of the means it employed to effectuate a constitutional purpose, is to inquire whether the restrictions it imposes on rights secured to individuals by the bill of rights are unreasonable ( State v. Normand, 76 N.H. 541, 543 ) and not whether it imposes any restrictions on such right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The true view is that both of these provisions of the fundamental law (one granting legislative power and one reserving individual rights) are to be considered together as interdependent, the one qualifying and limiting the other; otherwise it would result that due effect could not be given to both at the same time. Neither is supreme in a sense that would deprive the other of its effectiveness as a part of the fundamental law.”
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.