Foley v. Tyler’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1930
4 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 Linegar v. Rittenhouse
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 6, chapter 24, article 3, of the Cities and Villages act, provides that 'the city council shall be judge of the election and qualification of its own members.' Under that section we have held that county courts have no jurisdiction to hear the contest of an election in respect to the office of alderman, and for the reason that such jurisdiction is conferred upon the city council.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nesladek v. Kanka
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.