Wright v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2015
1 federal appellate · 19 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. Kane v. Johnson · Gray v. McLendon · Coleman v. Glenn · Williams v. City of Gloucester · Parsons v. Breed
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in such a case no formality such as the preferring of charges against, or the grant of a hearing to the incumbent, are necessary to the lawful exercise of the discretionary power of removal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Dobbs · Edwards v. Brown“Where the tenure of an office is not prescribed by law, the power to remove is an incident to the power to appoint. In such case, the appointee holds at the pleasure of the appointing power, although it attempts to fix a definite term; and no formalities such as the preferring of charges or the granting of a hearing to the incumbent are necessary to the lawful exercise of the authority of removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ogletree v. Chester
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.