McMahon v. Polk’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004
1 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Morris · Vallier v. Brakke · McKittrick v. Pardee · Warner v. Lockerby · Colonial & United States Mortgage Co. v. Bradley
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.
““The vote of ¡R. W. Wells, cast at Sturgis precinct for appellant, was rejected by the court as illegal and void upon the ground that said Wells -was a nonresident of the precinct, having his place of abode within the military reservation of Ft. Meade; and to this point our attention is directed by the first assignment of error. By the fifth subdivision of section 18, art. 26, of the Constitution, jurisdiction over the military reservation of Ft. Meade is surrendered to the (United States without reservation other than the right to serve legal process in certain cases; and the question presented by the record is whether a person in no way connected with the army or navy may, by long and continuous residence within the boundaries of the reservation thus ceded, acquire the right to vote at an election held in the county where the same is situated, pursuant to the law of the state. In his Commentaries on the Constitution (section 1227), Judge Story, in treating the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution authorizing Congress to exercise exclusive legislative power over military reservations obtained by the consent of the state in which the same are situated, says: 'The inhabitants of those places cease to be inhabitants of the state, and can no longer exercise any civil or political rights under the laws of the state.’ The doctrine resting upon and sustained by an unruffled current of authority seems to be that all political powers and jurisdiction over a militar”
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.