Kilday v. Germany’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1992
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 Gilmore v. Waples · Edwards v. Morton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent, we think, not only from the terms of Article 3111, but from the whole chapter of which it is a part, that the provisions of that Article, in so far as it fixes the final date for a candidate for party nomination for State office to file for a place on the ballot is intended to apply to candidates seeking party nomination for State offices, the terms of which in the usual course of events expire by operation of law during the year in which the election is to be held, or in case the election is to fill an unexpired term, where the vacancy occurs long enough prior to the final date fixed therein to afford a reasonable opportunity for all prospective applicants to comply with the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meyers v. Smith“The intention of the legislature in enacting a law is the law itself, and must be enforced when ascertained, although it may not be consistent with the strict letter of the statute. Courts will not follow the letter of the statute when it leads away from the true intent and purpose of the legislature, and to conclusions inconsistent with the general purpose of the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith““The above authorities abundantly demonstrate that in the absence of a statute forbidding action by the State Democratic Executive Committee, it as the executive head of the party, has the right to prescribe reasonable rules by which the party may make nominations in cases not covered by the statutes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewster v. Massey
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.