Vance v. Austell’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Bush v. Martineau (1927), Brickhouse v. Hill (1925)
39 state decisions — followed in 13 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 County of Cass v. Johnston
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the constitution of a state is not a grant of enumerated powers. Its chief object is to impose limitations upon the several departments of government. We look to it, not so much to see whether a contested enactment is authorized, but whether it is prohibited. For, if not prohibited either by the letter or the spirit of the fundamental instrument, it is authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burris v. Britt“No county seat shall be established or changed without the consent of a majority of the qualified voters of the county to be affected by such change,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velvin v. Kent“it erects an arbitrary standard for determining the result of the election,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Velvin v. Kent
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.