State ex rel. Read v. Crist’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2009
12 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 Bowers v. Smith · Parvin v. Wimberg · 2 E.H. Smith 142 - People Ex Rel. Hirsh v. . Wood · Taylor v. Taylor · People Ex Rel. Nichols v. Board of County Canvassers
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Provisions regulating the exercise of the right (to vote), therefore, are to be interpreted as directory rather than mandatory, unless the language used compels a different determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan v. Barnett“[b]allots other than those printed by the respective county clerks according to the provisions of this article shall not be cast, counted or canvassed in any election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calkins v. Stearley“the Legislature . . . shall regulate the manner, time and place of voting”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Calkins v. Stearley
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.