Stevenson v. Gilfert’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Lesniak v. Budzash (1993), Quaremba v. Allan (1975)
27 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 Ray v. Blair · Wene v. Meyner · Kilmurray v. Gilfert · State ex rel. Labauve v. Michel · Francis v. Sturgill
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one of the most tightly closed of the closed primary states.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fields v. Hoffman · Smith v. Penta
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.