State v. . Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1991
2 federal appellate · 7 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moro particularly, for Ihe present purpose, when the constitution proscribes and directs, in terms or by necessary implication, that a particular power shall 1)0 exercised in a specified way, or a particular thing shall be done by a particular co-ordinate branch of government (as the legislature), or by a particular officer or (lass of officers, and proscribes ihe way and manner of doing it, such direction cannot be disregarded. A due observance of it is essential, because Ihe constitution so provides, and its provisions are not in vain or of trifling moment, ft is not the nature of constitutions of government to provide iionessenlials, — useless, unimportant details, such as may be disregarded and dispensed with. As we have said, they are organic, made upon solemn consideration by the sovereign authority, and contain general, essential provisions. Details are avoided in them unless deemed important, — essential. Xonossential details are left in the discretion of those who exercise and administer the powers of government. If this were not so, why prescribe the way and manner? Why not leave these things to convenience and the authority charged villi the exercise, of the power? Why direct them? Why restrict them? And if sucli directions may be disregarded, ignored, suspended in some respects, then to what extent, and in what respect? If one co-ordinate branch of the government, or any class of officers, may do so, why may not another, and all, as to duties devolved upon them, ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““All bills and resolutions of a legislative nature shall he read three times in each house before they pass into laws, and shall he signed by the presiding officers of both houses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and nothing appears as a substitute for it.”
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.