Elmore v. Overton’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably State ex rel. Milwaukee Medical College v. Chittenden (1906), Eastman v. State (1887)
35 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Evans v. Ashby · Jenkins v. Waldron · Gregory v. State ex rel. Gudgel · Kelsea v. Fletcher · Kress v. State ex rel. Wagoner
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The office in question belongs to the executive department of the State, and the duties attached to it are, strictly speaking, of a merely administrative character, that is, are'in aid of the execution of, and assist in giving force and effect to, other provisions of our common school system.” Elmore v. Overton (1886), 104 Ind. 548, 552 , 4 N. E. 197 .”
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.