Goodrich v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2007
4 district · 14 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 Keim v. United States · Commonwealth v. Plaisted · Brown v. Russell · Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council · Matter of Stutzbach v. . Coler
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and are instituted for their equal protection and benefit. No special privileges or immunities shall ever be granted by the legislature, which may not be altered, revoked or repealed by the same body; and this power shall be exercised by no other tribunal or agency.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lemons v. Noller
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.