Dooley v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1993 · most notably Nixon v. Herndon (1927), Koy v. Schneider (1920)
27 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 The United States v. Isaac Morris · Mellor v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · State v. Schuchmann · State v. Reid · State ex rel. Litson v. McGowan
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it is clear that the word ‘election,’ as used in the statute, is used in its political sense, and in the same sense in which it is used in the Constitution, and means an election for public office, and' does not include a primary election for the purpose of nominating a candidate for public office, and also that a primary election is not an. election authorized by the Constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koy v. Schneider
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.