Graf v. Hiser’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2014
15 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 Painter v. Mattfeldt · Carr v. Mayor of Hyattsville · Dahler v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission · Hamilton v. Carroll · Seyboldt v. M. C.C. of Mt. Ranier
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the preparation of the notice, and in the reception and exclusion of votes, had a probably decisive influence upon the election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was a serious defect in the notice which the act made a prerequisite to the election ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not a substantial compliance with that essential condition precedent ...”
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.