Harrison v. Colgan’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably 27 Cal. 3d 532 - Olson v. Cory (1980), 29 Cal. 2d 258 - Pulcifer v. County of Alameda (1946)
40 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 Miller v. Kister · Storke v. Goux · Bullock v. Rouse · Kyburg v. Perkins · Santa Cruz Water Co. v. Kron
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a settled rule regarding such restrictions that they forbid any increase during a term, regardless of the fact that different persons may successively hold for successive parts of the term, so that one who is elected or appointed after a part of such term has expired cannot have an increase made after the term began, though prior to his election or appointment. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.