Adams v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1975
16 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. Dorsey v. Smyth · People v. Taylor · People Ex Rel. Barker v. Shaver
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ .... this provision of the code [Pol. Code, sec. 996] regards the person duly elected to an office as the incumbent of that office from the time of the commencement of the term for which he was elected until the expiration thereof, whether he qualifies or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Wonnacott
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.