Quinn v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Vogts v. Guerrette (1960), Strahler v. St. Luke's Hospital (1986)
27 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 Texas Co v. Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks · Christy v. Petrus · City of Springfield v. Clouse · Householder v. City of Kansas · Bellerive Country Club v. McVey
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Provisions of a Bill of Rights are primarily limitations on government, declaring rights that exist without any governmental grant, that may not be taken away by government and that government has the duty to protect. 1 Cooley's Constitutional Limitations 93, 358; Am.Jur. 1092, Sec. 308; 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 199, p. 976. As these authorities show, any governmental action in violation of these declared rights is void so that provisions of the Bill of Rights are self-executing to this extent. See also 1 Cooley's Constitutional Limitations 166 note. They do not, however, usually provide methods or remedies for their enforcement and certainly it is proper and within the legislative power to enact laws to protect and enforce the provisions of the Bill of Rights. 11 Am. Jur. 1094 , Sec. 309. In the absence of legislation, individuals may enforce and protect these rights from infringement by other individuals by any appropriate common law or code remedy. House-holder v. Kansas City, 83 Mo. 488, 495 , and cases cited; see also Local Union No. 324, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Upshur-Rural Electric Cooperative Corp., Tex.Civ. App., 261 S.W.2d 484 ; Texas & N. O. R. Co. v. Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks, 281 U.S. 548 , 50 S.Ct. 427 , 74 L.Ed. 1034 . Sec. 14, Art. I, 1945 Constitution, provides: `That the courts of justice shall be open to every person, and certain remedy afforded for every injury to person, property or character.' Thi”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“could only be determined in an action brought by [the individual] for that purpose.”
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.