McKenzie v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2010
1 district · 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
Relies on Mayor of Jackson v. State · Swann v. Buck · Martin v. O'Brien · Adams v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Ratliff
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o hold that the voter has a right to write the name of his choice on the ballot would render this section absolutely unenforceable.”
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.