Bergman v. Dutton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2004
13 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 Mayor of Macon v. Hughes · Smith v. McMichael · Harris v. Sheffield · Smith v. City Council of Augusta · Tolbert v. Long
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`if under the guise of an election which is really unauthorized by law, the property or person of the citizen is imperiled, equity will interfere'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'KELLEY v. Cox
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.