Adair v. McElreath’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2006
14 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 Town of Grove v. Haskell, Governor · Crovatt v. Mason · Cole v. Tucker · Bush v. Head · City of Leavenworth v. Wilson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the legislature can not restrict an elector to voting for some one of the candidates whose names have been printed upon the official ballot. He must be left free to vote for whom he pleases, and the Constitution has guaranteed to him this right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Trapp
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.