McPherson v. Blacker’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1967
13 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 Kemmler · Minor v. Happersett · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · People ex rel. Bay City v. State Treasurer · People v. Harding
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Constitutions do not change with the varying tides of public opinion and desire; the will of the people therein recorded is the same inflexible law until changed by their own deliberative action * * * They (the courts) must construe them as the people did in their adoption, if the means of arriving at that construction are within their power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the State may be entitled in the congress.””
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.