Craft v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1985 · most notably 32 Cal. App. 2d 11 - Nider v. Homan (1939), Gross v. Ball (1935)
33 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 Scholl v. Bell · Edwards v. Logan · Sparkman v. Saylor · Conway v. Sexton · Pflanz v. Foster
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No one has an inherent right to an office, because of which fact there existed no remedy at common law by which an unsuccessful candidate upon the face of the returns could contest the right of his opponent to the office involved. 15 Cyc. 393- 394; 20 Corpus Juris, 209-210; 9 R. C. L. 1157; Pflanz v. Foster, 155 Ky. 15 , and Stine v. Berry, 96 Ky. 65 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ratliff v. Tackett“‘ ‘ There is no inherent power in the courts to pass upon the validity of elections or to try contested election cases; their authority is wholly statutory, and must be either given expressly or by necessary implication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.