Codlin v. Kohlhousen’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1991
12 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 Harwood v. Wentworth · State ex rel. Harris v. Herrmann · Devine v. Board of Commissioners · City of Chicago v. Law
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Columbus is the only city in the state having the population named, at the last, federal census, and the act therefore applies alone to that city, and never can apply to any other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rapp v. Venable““A law may be made to apply to conditions existing at the time the law is enacted, but it must also apply to similar conditions in the future.””
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.