Smith v. Baughman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1960
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hoy v. State, ex rel. Buchanan · People ex rel. Cummings v. Head · State ex rel. Jones v. Oates · State ex rel. Atherton v. Sherwood · State ex rel. Bickford v. Cook
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we have uniformly held that title to public office can be tried only in quo warranto proceedings. State ex rel. Heilbron v. Van Brocklin, 8 Wash. 557 , 36 Pac. 495 ; State ex rel. Blake v. Morris, 14 Wash. 262 , 44 Pac. 266 ; Lynde v. Dibble, 19 Wash. 328 , 53 Pac. 370 ; Kimball v. Olmsted, 20 Wash. 629 , 56 Pac. 377 ; State ex rel. Dent v. McLennan, 110 Wash. 16 , 187 Pac. 408 ; State ex rel. Forstell v. Otis, 131 Wash. 455 , 230 Pac. 414 .”
3 later decisions 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.