Bailey v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
January 1983
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Powell v. McCormack · Barry v. United States ex rel. Cunningham · State v. Town Council So. Kingstown · Corbett v. Naylor · McGann v. Board of Elections
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor shall any person otherwise qualified to vote as provided in this article be permitted to vote while serving a prison sentence on final conviction of a felony nor subsequent to such imprisonment until the franchise shall have been restored by an act of the general assembly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Baronian““Nor shall any person convicted of bribery, or of any crime deemed infamous at common law, be permitted to exercise that privilege, until he be expressly restored thereto by act of the general assembly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Baronian
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.