Ladd v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Ray v. Blair (1952), Burks v. Walker (1909)
46 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Davis v. Beason · Wheeler v. Philadelphia · People Ex Rel. New York Electric Lines Co. v. Squire · People ex rel. Grinnell v. Hoffman
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A law may be general, however, and have but a local application, and it is none the less general and uniform, because it may apply to a designated class, if it operates equally upon all the subjects within the class for which the rule is adopted; and, in determining whether a law is general or special, the court will look to its substance and necessary operation, as well as to its form and phraseology.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Savage““Objection is made that the law makes no provision for any special election that may become necessary, but this is not vital, as the effect would be to relegate the parties to the law heretofore governing primary elections.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * Its significance, as then ascertained, is that the individuals therein designated are entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law, not otherwise provided for by the constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loe v. Britting
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.