Keiderling v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bradbury & Stamm Construction Co. v. Bureau of Revenue · City of Raton v. Sproule · Hutcheson v. Atherton · Board of Trustees of Town of Las Vegas v. Montano · State v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A special law is generally defined as legislation written in terms which makes [sic] it applicable only to named individuals or determinative situations. In contrast a law is considered general in nature if the subject of the statute may apply to, and affect the people of, every political subdivision of the state.”
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.