Misch v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Smedley Co. v. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. of Wisconsin (1956), The Children's Bootery v. Sutker (1926)
1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on People ex rel. Budd v. Holden · In re Swigert · State ex rel. Holden v. Tierney · Brush v. Lemma · People v. Loomis
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We know of no rule of law which prohibits a man’s becoming a candidate or being voted for at the same election for two incompatible offices, but undoubtedly, if he should be elected to both, he would be incapable of discharging the duties of both offices, and would be compelled to elect which to accept.” ( 136 Ill. 22, 31 , 26 N.E. 528 .)”
1 later decision 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.