Robison v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Newman v. United States ex rel. Frizzell · Oliver Newman v. United States of America · State Ex Rel. McFadyen v. Holtzclaw · Bartlett v. State · Frittz v. Thorpe
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such action may be brought in the Supreme Court or in the district court, in the following cases: 1st, When any person shall usurp, intrude into, or unlawfully hold or exercise any public office, or shall claim any franchise within this state or any office in any corporation created by authority of this state; 2nd, Whenever any public officer shall have done or suffered any act which, by the provisions of law, shall work a forfeiture of his office; 3rd, When any association or number of persons shall act within this State as a corporation without being legally incorporated; 4th, When any corporation does or admits acts which amount to a surrender or a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or when any corporation abuses its power or intentionally exercises powers not conferred by law; 5th, Where any corporation claims, by virtue of a congressional grant, any of the public lands or Indian lands to which the Indian title or right of occupancy has been extinguished; 6th, For any other cause .for which a remedy might have been heretofore obtained by writ of quo warranto, or information in the nature of quo warranto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... At common law no one but the law officers of the crown could sue out a writ of quo warranto. ... The statute of this state which abolishes.the writ of quo warranto, substituting therefor a civil action by which the remedies theretofore obtainable under the writ of quo warranto and proceedings by information in the nature of guo warranto, and modifying the common-law rule with reference to who might prosecute the action ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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