Murray v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2019
1 district · 13 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. Fowler v. Bull · Jordan v. Bailey · Wilson v. Clark · Jones v. Gridley · Adkinson v. Noonan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . and in all cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted; and whether or not a láw enacted is repugnant to this provision of the constitution shall be construed and determined by the courts of the state.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A term of office is one thing. An office holder is something else. The incumbent may go out, nobody come in, and the term goes on. If a successor is appointed or elected, he fills the unexpired portion of the term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“until their successors are elected and qualify.”
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.