State ex rel. Knutson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1950
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 Attorney General ex rel. Schantz v. Brunst · People Ex Rel. Bast v. . Voorhis
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.
““By such • appointment it becomes the appointee’s office, and the expiration of the two-year period succeeding the election of the predecessor is as much the termination of the appointee’s office as it would have been of the official elected had he continued therein. No other term than such particular two-year term is recognized in the constitution. . It is the one and same term no matter who the incumbent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.