State v. Swisher’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“subverted, and the law is proposed to be made at last by the popular vote of the people, leading inevitably to what was intended to be avoided — confusion and great popular excitement in the enactment of laws.” It is equally certain”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Farnsworth
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.