State v. Butts’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2004
21 state decisions — followed in 13 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 Davis v. School-District · Dells v. Kennedy · Byler v. Asher · People Ex Rel. Frost v. . Wilson · People ex rel. Foley v. Kopplekom
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature shall pass such laws as may be necessary for ascertaining by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lemons v. Noller
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.