Kerner v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2021
10 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 423B · 43 U.S.C. § 485H
Relies on Dugan v. Rank · Lynch v. United States · Ivanhoe Irrigation District v. McCracken · Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney
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.
“"§ 16. Unity of subject and title. Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith, which subject shall be expressed in the title; but if any subject shall be embraced in an act which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be embraced in the title. " (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he purpose of this constitutional provision is to prevent fraud and deception in the enactment of laws and to provide reasonable notice to the legislators and the public of the general intent and subject matter of the act. As such, the title of the legislative act need not serve as a catalog or index to the subject matter of the act, but need only set forth the general subject____ The body of the act ... [may] not encompass subjects which are not germane to or which are incongruous with the title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cheney v. Smith“prevent fraud and deception in the enactment of laws and to provide reasonable notice to the legislators and the public of the general intent and subject matter of the act. As such, the title of the legislative act need not serve as a catalog or index to the subject matter of the act, but need only set forth the general subject----The body of the act ... [may] not encompass subjects which are not germane to or which are incongruous with the title.”
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.