May v. Topping’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1984 · most notably Harrison v. Day (1959), Woodall v. Darst (1912)
28 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where [the Constitution] is clear in its terms and of plain interpretation to any ordinary and reasonable mind, there is no room for construction, and it would be mischievous and unlawful to assume it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slater v. Varney“* * * The interpretation [of] it [the Constitution] is that which reasonable minds, the great mass of the people themselves, would give it”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slater v. Varney
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.