Young v. Trimble’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1985
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... merely provides for the calling and holding of the election for the purpose of ascertaining the will of the people in the territory to be affected by the election. It does not now and never did attempt in any manner to define the effect of an election in the larger unit upon the rights of the smaller unit. The controlling power that the larger unit, for example, the county, should have over the small unit, as, for example, the precinct, was not declared until the enactment of the county unit law in 1906.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Salyer““So that, if any question directly involving the construction of a section of the Constitution and a statute enacted in pursuance thereof can be said to ’be definitely settled by the opinions of a court of last resort, then this question has been so-settled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodwin v. Anderson
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.