Prouty v. Stover’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Fadely (1957), Harris v. Shanahan (1963)
25 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain an implied inhibition there must be some express affirmative provision. The mere silence of the constitution on any subject cannot be turned into a prohibition. Take the illustrations cited. Were the constitution silent as to the qualifications of voters, that silence would not by implication or otherwise restrain the legislature from prescribing them. The power of the legislature to prescribe them would be unquestioned. Again, to sustain an implied inhibition, the express provision must apply’ to the exact subject-matter, and the inhibition' will not be extended further than is necessary to give full force to that provision. Pursuing the same illustration, a mere registry law will not come within the implied inhibition, even though it require the voter to do some acts to establish his right to vote, and though it frequently operate to deprive a legal voter of his vote. Such a law is concerning the general subject of voting and elections, but it does not reach to the exact matter of qualification; and, on the other hand,.full force can be given to .the constitutional provision without interfering with the law. To declare a law void as conflicting with an express provision of the constitution, the conflict must be clear. So say all the authorities. None the less clear must the conflict be when it is conceded that no, express provision has been violated, and only claimed that some negation must be implied from the affirmative language of the constitution which is ir”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Is it like an academy of science or a lodge of Odd Fellows, capable of indefinite expansion?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district must exist before it can be represented”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.