State v. Winkelmeier’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2000 · most notably County of Cass v. Johnston (1877), Gutierrez v. Ada (2000)
19 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature shall provide, by general law, for township organization, under which any county may organize whenever a majority of the legal voters of such county voting at any general election shall so determine. ” Article 10, § 5-”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it appeared that more than thirteen thousand voters participated in that election, and that ' only five thousand and thirty-five persons voted in favor of giving to the city authority, . . . and two thousand and one persons voted against it. . . . It is evident that the vote of five thousand out of thirteen thousand is not the vote of a majority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a majority of the legal voters, that is, of all the legal voters, of the city, and not merely of all those who might, at a particular-time, choose to vote upon the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.