Futrell v. Oldham’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1953
10 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 State ex rel. Marr v. Stearns · State ex rel. Robert v. Murphy · Clifford v. Heller · Ham v. State ex rel. Blackmon · People ex rel. Lynch v. Budd
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case turns on the question whether, on the resignation of the Governor, the then incumbent of the office of President of the Senate succeeded to the vacated office, or whether merely as such President of the Senate, the powers, duties, and emoluments of the office. * * * devolved upon him while he remained President.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It will be seen that in case of a vacancy in the office of Governor the vacancy is not to be .filled, but the powers and duties devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor, who does not cease to be Lieutenant Governor. Under such circumstances, it would hardly be contended that when the powers and duties of the Governor devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor, the latter thereby becomes Governor and can appoint a Lieutenant Governor. Nor do I think it could be contended that when the President pro tempore of the Señare acts as Governor he could appoint a person to fill the vacancy in the office of Lieutenant Governor. If he could, he would then appoint himself out of office, and it would be his duty to do so.””
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.