Reeves v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Leigh v. Hall (1960), Walton v. McDonald, SEC. of State (1936)
37 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 Westbrook v. McDonald · Ferrell v. Keel · Townsend v. McDonald
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Amendment No. 7 necessarily must be construed with some degree of liberality, in order that its purposes may be well effectuated. Strict construction might defeat the very purposes, in some instances, of the amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not be thwarted by strict or technical construction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Washburn v. Hall · Walker v. McCuen“The [Oregon] court held that it was not necessary to have a full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure proposed attached to each sheet of the petition. This would make each sheet a separate petition and would be putting form above substance. No matter how many signers there are to a petition and how many sheets are used, they are pasted together and become a constituent part of the same petition. It is only necessary that a full and correct copy of the measure on which the referendum is asked be filed with the petition and attached thereto in order that the petitioners may have the opportunity to read it and inform themselves as to the act to be referred before signing the petition, if they wish to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.