State v. Kallas’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2012
18 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 Commonwealth v. Merrick · Lewinsohn v. United States · King v. Commonwealth · State v. Sullivan · Riggins v. District Court of Salt Lake County
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the court will not listen to an objection made as to the constitutionality of an act by parties whose rights are not specifically affected. This court is committed to the rule that an attack on the validity of a statute cannot be made by parties whose interests have not been, and are not about to be, prejudiced by the operation of the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A general law applies to and operates uniformly upon all members of any class of persons, places, or things requiring legislation peculiar to themselves in the matters covered by the laws in question. On the other hand, special legislation relates either to particular persons, places, or things or to persons, places or things which, though not particularized, are separated by any method of selection from the whole class to which the law might, but for such legislation, be applied. ... [A] law is general when it applies equally to all persons embraced in a class founded upon some natural, intrinsic, or constitutional distinction. It is special legislation if it confers particular privileges or imposes peculiar disabilities, or burdensome conditions in the exercise of a common right; upon a class of persons arbitrarily selected, from the general body of those who stand in precisely the same relation to the subject of the law. The constitutional prohibition of special legislation does not preclude legislative classification, but only requires the classification to be reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“apply to and operate uniformly upon all members of any class of persons, places, or things requiring legislation peeu-liar to themselves in the matters covered by the laws in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Lehi City
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.