Wise v. Bigger’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), Taylor v. Beckham (1900)
26 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 Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · Gardner v. The Collector · People ex rel. Case v. Collins · County Commissioners v. People ex rel. Metz · Hamilton v. State ex rel. Bates
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.
“To do this [to inquire into the veracity of the record], would be to violate both the letter and the spirit of the constitution; to invade a co-ordinate and independent department of the government, and to interfere with the separate and legitimate power and functions of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. NAACP v. Committee“an act to apportion the representation of the State of Virginia in the Congress of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. NAACP v. Committee
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.