Holder v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2015
13 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 Parsons v. United States · Keenan v. Perry · Avery v. Inhabitants of Tyringham · Wright v. Gamble · Bruce v. Matlock
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here[, as here,] the tenure of the office is not fixed by law, and no other provision is made for removals ... it is ... a sound and necessary rule to consider the [appointing authority’s] power of removal as incident to the power of appointment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is expressly given or arises by necessary implication under the constitution or the statutes of the State....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perdue v. Baker“The executive power shall be vested in a Governor”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perdue v. Baker
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.