Jackson v. Maley’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2017
7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Rideout v. United States · United States v. Cruikshank · 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No power, civil or military, shall ever interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage by those entitled to such right." (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“that it is impossible to determine with mathematical certainty which candidate is entitled ... to be issued a certificate of election....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toliver v. Thompson
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.