Wheeler v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1942
14 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.
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.
““The constitution provides for two, and only two, elections, to be held by the people, to-wit, general elections, and township elections, (Const, art. 4, § 2;) and it does not anywhere even mention school-district elections or meetings. It provides for, or at least recognizes, the election of various officers; First, all the state officers provided for by the constitution, to-wit, the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, attorney general, and superintendent of public instruction, (Const, art. 1, §§ 1, 2, 14;) . . . eighth, county superintendent of public instruction (Const, art. 6, § 1).” (pp. 30, 31.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is no school-district election or meeting provided for in the constitution; there is no provision as to how school-district officers shall be elected, appointed, or chosen; and we suppose no one will claim that they are, by the terms of the constitution, to be elected at either of the elections provided for in the constitution; hence it would seem that the legislature would have full and complete power in the matter; that the legislature might provide for the election or appointment of school-district officers as it should choose, when it should choose, in the manner it should choose, and by whom it should choose.” (Page 32.)”
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.