Dryden v. Swinburne’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably Armstrong v. Stone (1852), State ex rel. Thompson v. McAllister (1893)
37 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 Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Farmington River Water Power Co. v. County Commissioners · Scatuorchio v. Jersey City Incinerator Authority · Dryden v. Swinburn · Saunders v. Haynes
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not duly and legally elected to said office, and is not legally entitled to the same, and has no right to perform the duties thereof for said term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Slater v. Varney“was because of his being an alien ineligible to hold said office”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Slater v. Varney
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.