Craig v. Bond’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1988
10 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 State ex rel. Mills v. Stewart · Morrissey v. Wait · State Ex Rel. Gauntt v. Lasher · Persons v. Penn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““7. The primary law is a part of the public policy of this state, and that its provisions are mandatory and controlling upon all political parties of the state; . . . “8. There is no law authorizing the State Election Board to place upon the ballots for a general election the names of the persons claiming to be the candidates of a political party organized after the time for filing as candidates for party nominations has closed. “9. No person shall be allowed to become a candidate in any general election unless he shall have complied fully and completely with the provisions of the primary law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lillard v. Cordell““Political parties in this state shall select or nominate their respective candidates for the various national, state, district, county and township offices by a primary election or elections as herein provided for, and no candidate’s name shall be printed upon the official ballot for any general or special election at which they or any of the national, state, district, county and township officers are to be elected unless such candidate shall have been nominated as herein specified; . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lillard v. Cordell““ ' . . . there can be no question as to the right to reorganize an old or to organize a new political party. It is a right inherent in the electors of the state, and such a right is a necessary accompaniment of popular government, without which our government would be bereft of efficient vital force and in danger of the evils of absolutism.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cooper v. Cartwright
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.