Spreckels v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 535 - Moore v. Panish (1982), State Ex Rel. Barney v. Hawkins (1927)
2 federal appellate · 44 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 McPherson v. Blacker · Coulter v. Pool · Socialist Party v. Uhl. · 57 Ohio St. 385 - McGrath v. Cowen · Patton v. Board of Health Etc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was originally supposed by the framers of our national Constitution that the electors would exercise an independent choice, based upon their individual judgment. But, in practice so long established as to be recognized as part of our unwritten law, they have been 'selected under a moral restraint to vote for some particular person who represented the preferences of the appointing power.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] definition sufficiently accurate to meet the requirements of one case may be found inadequate to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are approved definitions sufficiently broad to include them as such,”
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.