Thompson v. Scheier’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1968
13 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 Cain v. Garvey · People ex rel. Twitchell v. Blodgett · Bourland v. Hildreth · Chase v. Miller · Williamson's Administrator v. Administrator of Rees
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every * * * citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty days; next preceding the election * * * shall be qualified to vote * *”
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.