Gaskin v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2025
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Shelby County v. Hale · Hatcher v. Bell · Crutchfield v. Collins · 6 Smith & H. 546 - State Ex Rel. v. Phillips
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the 1870 constitutional convention was comprised of men who had known the injustice of retroactive disenfranchisement [during Reconstruction] and were determined to safeguard ... future generations from similar acts of repression. That this right was preserved by constitutional amendment rather than legislative enactment accentuates its importance to the people of the State of Tennessee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May v. Carlton“except upon conviction by a jury of some infamous crime, previously ascertained and declared by law”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May v. Carlton
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.