Leser v. Garnett’s Empirical Analysis
258 U.S. 130 · 1922
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 39 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Coleman v. Miller (1939)
51 federal appellate · 39 district · 78 state decisions — followed in 25 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 Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Field v. Clark · Brown v. Maryland · United States v. Reese · Neal v. Delaware
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the function of a state Legislature in ratifying a proposed amendment to the federal Constitution, like the function of Congress in proposing the amendment, is a federal function derived from the federal Constitution; and it transcends any limitations sought to be imposed by the people of a state.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the Legislatures of Tennessee and of West Virginia had power to [ratify the Nineteenth Amendment], official notice to the Secretary [of State], duly authenticated, that they had done so was conclusive upon him, and, being certified to by his proclamation, is conclusive upon the courts.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the constitution of Maryland limits the suffrage to men,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.