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Fesler v. Brayton’s Empirical Analysis

1896

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
7
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Isenhour v. State (1901), Ellingham v. Dye (1912)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions

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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. State ex rel. Powell · Denney v. State ex rel. Basler · Henderson v. State ex rel. Stout · Rumsey v. . the People · Hovey v. State ex rel. Schuck

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “* * * While the framers of that sacred instrument, and the voters who adopted it, were all still living, they construed it to mean that the existing apportionment law, whether good or bad, in or out of date, must continue in force until a new one is enacted to take its place, and that the government shall not be brought to an untimely end because of the failure of the legislature to perform the duty enjoined upon it by the constitution. * * *”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma
  2. “Nor ought the process of injunction to be applied but with the utmost caution. It is the strong arm of the court, and to render its operation benign and useful, it should be exercised with great discretion, and only upon necessity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 83 Ind. App. 658 - Schwartz v. Holycross

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.