Spinney v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2011
21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This declaration of a right, like many others in our constitution, is inoperative except as supplemented by legislative action. “So far as substantial benefits are concerned, the naked right without the interposition of the legislature is like the earth before the creation, ‘without form and void,’ or to put it in the usual form, the constitution in this respect is not self-executing/’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be deemed to have been done and furnished at the personal instance of the owner.”
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.