Scott v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1992
6 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 Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II · State Ex Rel. Westhues v. Sullivan · Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co. v. Wollbrinck · Dysart v. City of St. Louis · State Ex Rel. Voss v. Davis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Each sheet of a petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially the following form by the person who circulated the sheet of the petition, by his affidavit thereon and as part thereof: State of Missouri County of_ I,_, being first duly sworn, say (here shall be legibly written or typewritten the name of the signers of the sheet) signed this sheet of the foregoing petition, and each of them signed his name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated his name, street address and city, town or village correctly, and that each signer is a qualified voter of the state of Missouri and of the _congressional district. Signature and address of affiant. Subscribed and sworn to before me this_ day of_, A.D. 19_ (Notary seal and signature.) The form herein given is mandatory, and if followed in any petition it shall be sufficient, disregarding clerical and merely technical errors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It follows from this that the signature of a person otherwise qualified, but not registered, to vote is not acceptable on an initiative petition proposing an amendment to the constitution, because he is not at the time legally entitled to vote on the measure it proposes. Accordingly, we hold that the signers of an initiative petition are required to be registered voters.”
1 later decision 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.