Say v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Matter of Election Reform Amendment (1993), Massachusetts Teachers Ass'n v. Secretary of the Commonwealth (1981)
2 district · 77 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 Brownlow v. Wunsch · Wieder v. Hoss
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“words which could form the basis of a slogan for use by those who expect to carry out a campaign for or against an initiated constitutional amendment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“correctly and fairly express the true intent and meaning”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contain the words 'Freedom to Work' consistent with similar expressions of protection of liberty and individual dignity found in the Bill of Rights.”
3 later decisions 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.