Hamlin v. Kassafer’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 1950 · most notably Albert Waite v. City of Santa Cruz (1902), Morton v. Broderick (1897)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 State v. Carroll · Wilcox v. Smith · Petersilea v. Stone · State ex rel. Leal v. Jones · Town of Plymouth v. Painter
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute a person an officer de facto, he must be in the actual possession of the office, and in the exercise of its functions, and in the discharge of its duties. When this is the fact necessarily, there can be no other incumbent of the office. An officer de jure is one who has the lawful right to the office, but who has either been ousted from, or never actually taken possession of, the office.””
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.