Baldwin v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 1993
3 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 City of Beardstown v. City of Virginia · Parker v. Orr · Nicholls v. Barrick · McKittrick v. Pardee · Apple v. Barcroft
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is thus seen that the county court arrived at the very right of the matter. That is the object of inquiry, and when that end is reached, no person can, in any manner, shape or form, be injured, but everyone, the voters and the candidates, are awarded and given exactly what they are entitled to.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riley v. Trainor
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.