Rogan v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 1972
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McAuliffe v. Mayor and Board of Aldermen · Board of Street Commissioners v. Williams · Wright v. Herzog · Andrews v. Police Board
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No constitutional question is involved. Plaintiff had an unquestioned right to run for public office. But, as Mr. Justice Holmes said m&ny years ago, a man ‘may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.’ McAuliffe v. City of New Bedford, 1892, 155 Mass. 216, 220 , 29 N. E. 517 . If the tenure of assessors is to be made independent of political vicissitudes, the incongruity of soliciting one’s neighbors’ votes and assessing their property is too clear for elaboration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meehan v. Macy
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.