Singer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 1997 · most notably Dasch v. Jackson (1936), Ex parte Lucas (1901)
36 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature and extent of the qualifications required must depend primarily upon the judgment of the State as to their necessity. If they are appropriate to the calling or profession and attainable by reasonable application, no objection to their validity can be raised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keller v. State
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.