Ferguson v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1979 · most notably Taaffe v. Sanderson (1927), McClendon v. McKeown (1959)
27 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 Walls v. Brundidge · Rouse v. Thompson · Williams v. Buchanan · Logan v. Russell · Govan v. Jackson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act in question prescribes no tests for party affiliations. Therefore the duly constituted authorities of the recognized political parties had a right to prescribe the tests for the voters at the primary elections to be held by such political parties. To hold otherwise would be to destroy the usefulness of the act and to render it unreasonable in its application or practical effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLain v. Fish
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.