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Merwin v. Fussell’s Empirical Analysis

1910

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
3
states following
March 2024
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Monette Road Improvement District v. Dudley (1920), Sims v. Ahrens (1925)

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions

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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 Dreyfus v. Boone · Cairo & Fulton Railroad v. Parks · Worthen v. Badgett · State ex rel. Smith v. Askew · State v. Johnson

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ * * it must be conceded by all that time and place are the substance of every election,’ and that ‘it is, of course, essential to the validity of an election that it be held at the time and in the place provided by law.’ ””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. McCoy v. Story
  2. ““Any citizen of any county, city or town may institute suit in behalf of himself and all others interested, to protect the inhabitants thereof against the enforcement of any illegal exactions whatever.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mudge v. McDougal
  3. ““By this provision the Constitution has fixed the conditions which must be complied with before a valid levy of this road tax can be made. It must be first voted by the electors.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Missouri Pacific R.R. Co. v. McCracken

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.