Black v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2000 · most notably Shepherd v. Sartain (1913), Garrett v. Cuninghame (1924)
49 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Parker v. Orr · First National Bank v. Chaffin · People Ex Rel. Attorney General Ex Rel. Boyer v. Teague · Echols v. State ex rel. Dunbar · Pruitt v. McWhorter
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Sheriff shall be elected in each county by the qualified electors thereof, who shall hold his office for the term of four years, unless sooner removed, and shall be ineligible to such office as his own successor”
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.