Carpenter v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2007
20 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 Simmons v. Arnim · Houston v. Moore · Fekete v. City of East St. Louis · Gillespie v. Lightfoot · 83 Tex. Crim. 134 - Lowe v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The clear policy of this State with respect to that matter is plainly expressed therein. The people have the right to change that policy if they desire. That right does not rest either with the courts or with any other branch of the State Government. Courts should presume that the people intended to do precisely what they have done in adopting those amendments. This presumption should be indulged in willingly, and not grudgingly. The courts are not concerned with the wisdom of a constitutional amendment. Courts need not exert their ingenuity to find reasons to thwart the intention of the people clearly expressed in the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land. When this policy so expressed is established, it ‘supplants all other laws and rules that are inconsistent with it.’ Gillespie v. Lightfoot, 103 Tex. 359 , 125 S.W. 799, 801 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.