Desribes v. Wilmer’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2002
21 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 Lee v. Lee · Jones' Adm'r v. Brooks · Johnson v. Copeland's Adm'r · Lary v. Craig
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the civil rights, privileges, and capacities of any citizen shall not be in any manner affected by his religious principles”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Religious quarrels or persecutions find no warrant, or even palliating excuse, in our constitutions and jurisprudence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Q]uestions of polemic theology can never obtain a standing in our courts of judicature.”
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.