Crampton v. O'Mara’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Kirby (1942), People v. Enlow (1957)
28 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 Ex parte Garland · Cummings v. The State of Missouri · Wall · Wilson · Hawker v. People of New York
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall hereafter be deemed an indispensable qualification for persons to hold any office within the state of Indiana, either by election or appointment, that such persons shall never have . . . been convicted of . . . crime against the laws of the United States where the sentence imposed therefor exceeded six (6) months,””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucas v. McAfee“The so-called right to hold office is not a natural or inherent right. It is a privilege which arises from the organization of our civil society. If there is nothing in our fundamental law guaranteeing the privilege, then the people, through their official agency, the legislature, may take it away.”
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.