McCreary v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1969 · most notably Stanford v. Butler (1944), Rouse v. Johnson (1930)
2 district · 24 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘There is no more prominent and persistent idea in the present Constitution than the purpose it evinces of having all constitutional offices filled by election by the people, and that as soon as it may be practicable to hold such election. ’ “A vacancy existed in the office of county judge, and, under the plain provision of the law, was to be filled at the November election, 1912.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mullins v. Jones
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.