Perry v. Stancil’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples (1978), State Ex Rel. Martin v. Preston (1989)
70 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 Bain Jr · State of Missouri v. State of Illinois · Watson Industries, Inc. v. Shaw · Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Schneider · Ingram v. . Easley
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[c]onstitutional provisions should be construed in consonance with the objects and purposes in contemplation at the time of their adoption. To ascertain the intent of those by whom the language was used, we must consider the conditions as they then existed and the purpose sought to be accomplished."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In interpreting our Constitution, we are bound to 'give effect to the intent of the framers of the organic law and of the people adopting it.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n arriving at the intent, we are not required to accord the language used an unnecessarily literal meaning. Greater regard is to be given to the dominant purpose than to the use of any particular words....”
2 later decisions 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.