Herken v. Glynn’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1974 · most notably Evans v. Cornman (1970), STATE, EX REL. v. Urban Renewal Agency of Kansas City (1956)
2 district · 22 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 Fort Leavenworth Co v. Lowe · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. McGlinn · Chicago Ry Co v. McGlinn · Merchants Exchange v. Knott · Porter v. Hall
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, as we have held, and as controlling authorities elsewhere hold, the United States has exclusive jurisdiction over the land on which the Soldiers' Home in question was erected, then the residents in that home are nonresidents of the State of Tennessee, and cannot fall within the requirements for legal voters laid down by our constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Londeree““The Congress shall have power ... To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, . . . over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No case has been found where it has been held that residents on lands ceded by a state to the United States retained or acquired a right to vote as residents of the ceding state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adams v. Londeree
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.