Charles Barrett v. State of Indiana’s Empirical Analysis
229 U.S. 26 · 1913
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney (1979), Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts (1966)
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Smyth v. Ames · Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Barbier v. Connolly
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the province of the legislature to make the laws; and of the courts to enforce them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Doe
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.