State v. Dowling’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1959
8 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. Connaughton v. Holcomb · State ex rel. Dawson v. City of Atchison · Incorporation of Olsburg v. Board of County Commissioners · Hutchinson & Southern Railroad v. Board of Commissioners · Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad v. Board of Comm'rs
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Now what was the matter with the proceedings? Merely that the enumerator, a rural preacher and day laborer, took the census of voters of the territory in a shabby little notebook in which he also kept his personal memoranda about his private work and labor, Chautauqua expenses, the purchase of coal, and shipments of clothing for European relief, etc. But if the little notebook is studied with patience the relevant enumeration is readily severable from the irrelevant personal contents, and there is not the slightest reason for assuming that the enumeration did not have due attention from the only tribunal which had any concern with it — the board of county commissioners of Decatur county. Since there was neither charge of fraud or similar misconduct, the ascertainment of the number of electors in the district and of the sufficiency of the petition for the calling of the election were exclusively the official concern of the county board. This court has repeatedly held that where the determination of the existence of prerequisite facts to authorize official action is vested in a local tribunal, such as a county board or a mayor and city council, its determination is conclusive and is not subject to review except in cases of fraud or similar misconduct of sufficient gravity to vitiate it. (The State, ex rel., v. City of Atchison, 92 Kan. 431 , 140 Pac. 873 ; The State, ex rel., v. City of Harper, 94 Kan. 478 , 146 Pac. 1169 ; The State, ex rel., v. Holcomb, 95 Kan. 660 , 149 Pac”
2 later decisions 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.