People ex rel. Elder v. Sours’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably City and County of Denver v. New York Trust Company No 642 City and County of Denver (1913), State Ex Rel. Kemp v. City of Baton Rouge (1949)
1 federal appellate · 86 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Luther v. Borden · State ex rel. Hudd v. Timme · Nesbit v. People · State ex rel. McClurg v. Powell · City of Denver v. Hayes
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Anything in the constitution of this state in conflict or inconsistent with the provisions of this amendment is hereby declared to be inapplicable to the matters and things by this amendment covered and provided for."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.