King v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1935
4 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 Brush v. Lemma · McCormick v. People
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 97. The circuit courts in the respective counties, and in Cook county the superior court also may hear and determine contests of the election of, judges of the county court, mayors of cities, presidents of county boards-, presidents of villages, in reference to the removal of county seats and in reference to any other subject which may be submitted to the vote of the people of the county, and concurrent jurisdiction with the county court in all cases mentioned in section ninety-eight (98). “Sec. 98. The county court shall hear and determine contests of election of all other county, township and precinct officers, and all other officers for the contesting of whose election no provision is made.” (Hurd’s Stat. 1909, p. 971.),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Shinkle
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.