Alcorn v. Hamer’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 1987 · most notably In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District (1891), Hoge v. George (1921)
1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Corning v. Greene
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.
“that his rights shall be protected, and that his civil conduct shall only be regulated by the associated wisdom, intelligence, and integrity of the whole representation of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the legislature of the State of Mississippi.”
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.