State ex rel. Walker v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2023
20 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 People ex rel. Johnson v. Earl · State v. Hilmantel · Zeiler v. Chapman · State ex rel. Ensworth v. Albin · Board of Education v. Citizens' Nat. Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If, therefore, the regulations of elections may be reasonably construed to entitle the citizen to vote, it should be done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Calkins v. Stearley“the supreme right guaranteed by the Constitution of the state is the right of a citizen to vote at public elections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.