Duncan v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), New York v. United States (1992)
7 district · 17 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 Royall · Jones v. United States · Luther v. Borden · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · Day Land & Cattle Co. 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * while the people are thus the source of political power, their governments, national and state, have been limited by written constitutions, and they have themselves thereby set bounds to their own power, as against the sudden impulses of mere majorities (Writer’s italics.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ladnier v. Mollere“is the right of the people to choose their own officers for governmental administration, and pass their own laws.”
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.