McMillan v. Siemon’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Lance W. (1985), In Re Quinn (1973)
39 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 Oakland Paving Co. v. Hilton · Wallace v. Zinman · Yosemite Lumber Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Russell v. McDowell · Beneficial Loan Society, Ltd. v. Haight
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The exercise of the franchise is one of the most important functions of good citizenship, and no construction of an election law should be indulged that would disfranchise any voter if the law is reasonably susceptible of any other meaning.” (p.726.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Patterson v. Justus“The provisions of the constitution must receive a liberal, practical commonsense construction and new provisions must be considered with reference to the situation intended to be remedied or provided for.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nixon
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.