Tarpley v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
14 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 Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · Dennison Manufacturing Co. v. Wright · Smith v. McMichael · McKown v. City of Atlanta · Smith & Bondurant v. Meador
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is required when there is an office to make an officer de facto, is that the individual claiming the office is in possession of it, performing its duties and claiming to be such officer under color of an election or appointment, as the case may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are recognized as valid on grounds of public policy, and for the protection of those having official business to transact.”
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.