Wingate v. Flynn’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1974
17 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 · Bareham v. City of Rochester · Westchester Mortgage Co. v. Grand Rapids & Ionia Railroad · The People v. . Fancher · Wirth v. . Burns Bros.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the day of plaintiff’s election in the instant case, the electors of the county of Kings were authorized to choose a surrogate for the term of six years. This term began on January 1, 1926. On January 1, 1926, these electors were for the first time authorized to choose a surrogate for the term of fourteen years. They had no such authority before that date. The amendment specifically states that the surrogate of the county of Kings ‘shall hereafter be elected for’ a term of fourteen years. This amendment went into effect on January 1, 1926, and therefore speaks only of elections held on and after that date. The wording is positive and definite, and is not susceptible of more than one interpretation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snow v. Keddington
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.