Dagley v. McIndoe’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2014
13 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 Sauntman v. Maxwell · City of Sedalia ex rel. Gilsonite Construction Co. v. Montgomery · City of Sedalia ex rel. Gilsonite Construction Co. v. Montgomery · People Ex Rel. Irwin v. . Sawyer · Perkins v. Henderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To begin with, the petition is filed with the clerk. He is given ten days, not only to examine, but to ‘ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of registered electors;’ so that the clerk is required to do more than a mere ministerial act of counting names on the petition; he must ‘ascertain’ — an act judicial or discretionary rather than arithmetical. In this, his duties are broader than those of the Secretary of State when a petition for the initiative or referendum is presented under the amendment to the Constitution of Missouri. [See, State ex rel. Kemper v. Carter, 257 Mo. l. c. 77, 165 S. W. 780 .]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““"Within ten days from the date of filing such petition, the city clerk shall examine and from the registration books ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of registered electors, and if necessary, the council shall allowed him extra help for that purpose, and he shall attach to said petition his certificate, showing the result of said examination.””
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.