Allen v. Lelande’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2012
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Constitution of the state (article 4, § 7) reads as follows: ‘Each house shall choose its officers, and judge of the qualifications, elections, and returns of its members.’ By that article the assembly is made the exclusive judge of the qualifications of its members. The law providing for an official ballot cannot be held to have changed the intent of the people in adopting that constitutional provision that the assembly should be the sole and exclusive judge of the eligibility of those whose election is properly certified. For this court to undertake to try the question of eligibility and to deprive the candidate of any chance to be elected would simply be to usurp the jurisdiction of the assembly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Comer v. Ashe
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.