Power v. Ratliff’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Schultz v. Philadelphia (1956), Power v. Robertson (1922)
32 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 New Orleans Water Works Co v. City of New Orleans · Crawford v. Gilchrist · Fletcher v. Tuttle · Jones v. Black · State ex rel. Rose v. Superior Court of Milwaukee County
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary to say that this rule obtains to the extent that equity will never restrain the holding of an election, for the door of the court is always open to those who seek protection in matters of property and the maintenance of civil rights or who reasonably apprehend the infliction of irreparable injury ... [I]f an election is attempted to be held without authority of law, equity might well interfere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Hosemann“[i]t is well settled that courts cannot interfere with the Legislature in the enactment of a void statute or with a municipal corporation in the mere enactment of a void ordinance....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.