Bouldin v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
82 U.S. 131 · 1872
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2018 · most notably Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich (1976), Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church (1969)
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pelham v. Way
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e cannot decide who ought to be members of the church . But we may inquire whether the resolution of expulsion was the qct of ... persons who were not the church and who consequently had no right to excommunicate others.”). 10 . Judge Nash explained that”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be removed from their trusteeship by a minority of the church society or meeting, without warning, and acting without charges, without citation or trial, and in direct contravention of the church rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.