State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2012
2 district · 8 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 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Flint v. Stone Tracy Co. · Anniston Mfg Co v. Davis · Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory · United States v. Constantine
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'from confusive last-minute charges and countercharges and the distribution of propaganda in an effort to influence voters on an election day.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“so as to avoid not only a conclusion that it is unconstitutional, but also grave doubts on that score.”
1 later decision 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.