Spaulding v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 862 · 1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2002
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Reitman v. Mulkey · Ellis v. Mayor of Baltimore · 234 F. Supp. 945 - Ellis v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The referendum procedure ... is a fundamental part of the State's legislative process.”
2 later decisions 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.