Martin v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1938
13 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 Ranney v. Bader · Cohn v. Souders · Black v. Ross
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our duty to follow the decisions of the Supreme Court, and under the authority of the case above quoted from, we hold that the order of the board made March 12, 1907, was insufficient in not specifying the place for the election,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“authorizing the board of directors of said school district to borrow the sum of ten thousand dollars for the erection of additional school building.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“on that order the secretary was not authorized to submit the proposition of furnishing the schoolhouse and purchasing a site for the new building,”
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.