Crutchfield v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2025
2 federal appellate · 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 11 Smith & H. 672 - Evans v. McCabe, Comr. · 1 Smith & H. 679 - Morrison v. Buttram · State ex rel. Gouge v. Burrow · State v. Weaver
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“previously ascertained and declared by law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that the declaration of the right of universal suffrage is self-executing in that any citizen may rely upon it independently of any legislative enactment. However, the exception to universal suffrage is expressly dependent upon legislative action. That is, the legislature is empowered to deprive convicted criminals of the right to vote under the limitations set out in Article 1, Section 5 and Article IV, Section 2, but it is not reasonable to interpret the exception as self-executing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaskin v. Collins“All such requirements [to vote] shall be equal and uniform across the state, and there shall be no other qualification attached to the right of suffrage. The General Assembly shall have the power to enact laws requiring voters to vote in the election precincts in which they may reside, and laws to secure the freedom of elections and the purity of the ballot box.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.