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← 278 Ala. 188 - State v. Mills

State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
October 2012
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “'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
  2. “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.