Conner v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2008
20 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.
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.
““Neither the members of the board of supervisors, nor the justice of the peace, have any right to complain of the exercise by the legislature of its constitutional power in the creation of a county until they become directly affected by it. They cannot maintain this bill simply because they fear some invasion may be made upon their rights as officers. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Power v. Ratliff“‘ ‘ The taxpayer has utterly failed to prove himself within the provision of the law as stated in Gibbs v. Green, 54 Miss. 592 , in that he has failed to show, not only‘that the act about to be performed is unconstitutional,’ but also failed to show that he will be injured in any way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Power v. Ratliff“the courts will not interfere in any election where it is not called in violation of the constitution and laws of the state.”
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.