Atkeson v. Lay’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1980 · most notably State Ex Rel. Wahl v. Speer (1920), Byrd v. State Ex Rel. Colquett (1924)
29 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.
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.
““Sec. 2. Any convention of delegates or primary election as hereinafter defined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public office, and also electors to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public offices to be filled by election within the state. Such nomination shall he made by filing a certificate of nomination, executed with the formalities prescribed for the execution of an instrument affecting real estate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Candidates nominated by electors are not the nominees of a political party, but of the individual electors nominating them, and only as such are entitled to go upon the ballot.””
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.