Hodge v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1968 · most notably Stanford v. Butler (1944), Spreckels v. Graham (1924)
26 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All agree that if the Legislature had a reasonable excuse for this exclusion the act is constitutional. The presumption is that it thought it had a right and sufficient reason for the exclusion of presidential electors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stevenson v. Hardin““It is agreed on all hands that the Constitution does not forbid a reasonable and proper classification of the objects of legislation.””
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.