Vidal v. Backs’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1994
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Whitney v. Blackburn · St. Louis, B. & M. Ry. Co. v. Hicks · State v. Shelton · Langabier v. Fairbury, Pontiac & Northwestern R. R. Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“day appointed by the President ... for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`set apart ... to rejoice over some great national or historical event....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“day appointed by the President ... for a ... holiday”
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.