Borman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy (1939), Johnson v. Craft (1921)
1 district · 92 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 Houston v. Moore · Cochran v. Van Surlay · Mayor of Mobile v. Yuille · Benson v. Mayor · State v. Wheeler
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every American state the people in the aggregate constitute the sovereign, with no limitation of its power, and no trustee of it but its own appointee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That the power and jurisdiction of Parliament is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds.””
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.