Beare v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2017
5 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Reynolds v. Sims · Shapiro v. Thompson · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications who shall have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years and who shall be a citizen of the United States and who shall have resided in this State one (1) year next preceding an election and the last six (6) months within the district or county in which such person offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector; provided, however, that before offering to vote at an election a voter shall have registered annually, but such requirement for registration shall not be considered a qualification of an elector within the meaning of the term ‘qualified elector’ as used in any other Article of this Constitution in respect to any matter except qualification and .eligibility to vote at an election. * * * ” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beare v. Briscoe““Voters shall register annually. * * * In each year * * * the period for registration shall be from the first day of October through the thirty-first day of January following. * * * Each annual registration * * * shall entitle the registrant, if otherwise qualified, to vote at elections held during the period of one year beginning on the first day of March following the registration period.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beare v. Briscoe
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.