Bailey v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1999
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · Maryland Committee for Fair Representation v. Tawes · WMCA, Inc. v. Lomenzo
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 20 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 government is founded on their authority, and is instituted for their equal protection and benefit .... And the state of South Dakota is an inseparable part of the American Union and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. .”
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.