Bullington v. Lear’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1973
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Smithville Independent School Dist. · Houchins v. Plainos · Turner v. Teller · Lightner v. McCord · Pollard v. Snodgrass
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) The Legislature shall enact a law or laws whereby the qualified voters of any county, justice’s precinct or incorporated town or city, may, by a majority vote of those voting, determine from time to time whether the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes shall be prohibited or legalized within the prescribed limits; * * *»”
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.