Finklea v. Farish’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Abramson v. Hard (1934), Shepherd v. Sartain (1913)
52 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 Borman v. State · Davis v. State · Thomas v. Owens · Barker v. People · Sheppard v. Dowling
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]etailed qualifications ... stated in respect to the offices of Senators and Representatives, judges, executive officers of the state, sheriffs, and solicitors. Const.1901, §§ 47, 116, 117, 132, 138, 154, 167.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evinced a purpose to change the policy of the state ... to leave the general qualifications for officeother than those enumerated in section 60to the discretion and determination of the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Those who are not qualified electors, except as otherwise expressly provided;”
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.