Westerman v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009 · most notably Smith v. Allwright (1944), Ray v. Blair (1952)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary is a barren, useless proceeding unless it binds those who take part in it, to vote for its nominees. Because of this palpable fact, the statute requires that those entering it pledge themselves to so vote. Only by making this pledge are they entitled to take part in it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Love v. Taylor
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.