Attorney General v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1958
7 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 Strauder v. West Virginia · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · In re Leach · Barker v. People · State ex rel. Off v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory upon which our political institutions rest is, that all men have certain inalienable rights —that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and that in the pursuit of happiness all avocations, all honors, all positions, are alike open to every one.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But while these cases support the claim that women might hold some offices, they reinforce the authorities which deny the general right contended for here.””
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.