Collier v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Graham v. Jones (1941), 773 So. 2d 7 - Armstrong v. Harris (2000)
27 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 People ex rel. Elder v. Sours · Oakland Paving Co. v. Hilton · Crawford v. Gilchrist · Green v. Weller · Warfield v. Vandiver
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the procedure prescribed by the Constitution for proposals to amend the Constitution must be duly followed and none of the requisite steps may be omitted, yet unless the courts are satisfied that the Constitution has been violated in the submission of a proposed amendment they should uphold it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The substance more than the form is to be regarded in considering whether the complete system prescribed by ... the Constitution for submitting proposals to amend the Constitution has been observed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be agreed to by three-fifths of all members elected to each House”
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.