Todd v. Tierney’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2004
17 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 Kadderly v. Portland · State Ex Rel. Westhues v. Sullivan · State ex rel. Brislawn v. Meath · Arkansas Tax Commission v. Moore · Caseday v. Lindstrom
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What the framers of the Constitution intended as disclosed by the language employed is, of course, the interpretation properly to be given the instrument____ We should, as nearly as we may, endeav- or to look at the instrument from the vantage point of the framers the better to understand their view of the matter and the meaning likely intended____ ... And whenever we refer to the framers that term is to be taken as embracing the people who adopted it. We are not unmindful of the rule of construction applicable to a Constitution that its language is to be taken in its common and ordinary sense and as likely understood by the people who adopted it____””
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.