Cottrell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1975
11 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . It is claimed that the “act for the maintenance and support of illegitimate children,” approved February 25, 1875 (Laws, 1875, p. 53), is void, because not signed by the president of the senate. An inspection of the original act, in the office of the secretary of state, shows that the act passed the house of representatives, and was duly attested, and was signed by the speaker of the house. The act is also attested by the secretary of the senate, and is approved by the governor, but is not signed by the president of the senate. Does this omission invalidate the act? Section 20, art. II of the Constitution of 1867 provides that “the presiding officer of each house shall sign publicly, in the presence of the house over which he presides, while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, all bills and joint-resolutions passed by the legislature.” . . . An examination of the journal of the senate at that session shows that the bill passed the senate by a vote of twelve in favor of and one against it. The signature of a presiding officer to a bill is a mere certificate to the governor that it has passed the requisite number of readings, and been adopted by the constitutional majority of the house over which he presides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. Rampton““And (the action), being essentially a civil action, the better course is to conduct the prosecution in tbe name of the real party in interest. But in such a case the state is a mere trustee, and the real party in interest obtains the benefit of the judgment; the object of the action being merely to enforce the discharge of a civil and moral obligation, that of support by a father of his own child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reese
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.