Ex parte Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
262 F. 563 · 1920
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1987
1 district · 1 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 State of Ohio on Relation of David Davis v. Charles Q Hildebrant · Livermore v. Waite · State ex rel. Mullen v. Howell · State v. Payne
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Congress, whenever twó-thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments of this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures-of three-fourths of. the several States, or by conventions in. three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other, mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year oné thousand eight hundred and eight shall in' any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section oí the first article; and that no State, without its consent, shall be deprivéd of its equal suffrage in the Senate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. Gloss
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.