People Ex Rel. Stapleton v. . Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably People Ex Rel. Brink v. . Way (1904), Rasure v. Sparks (1919)
28 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 People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease · People Ex Rel. Judson v. . Thacher · Goetcheus v. . Matthewson · People ex rel. Smith v. Pease
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, with all the safeguards with which popular elections are legally and naturally surrounded, frauds are perpetrated, the tribunals are open, and laws and a system of procedure exists, for the punishment of the offenders and for the rectification of consequent errors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leary v. Jones““We cannot hold otherwise as to inspectors of elections than that they are, under the provisions of the election- law, made ministerial officers wholly, for their duties are pointed out by the law definintely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leary v. Jones““They are bound to an exact obedience of the particular commands which the law has laid upon them as its officers, and they may not act on their own opinions or knowledge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leary v. Jones
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.