State ex rel. Wagner v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1960
20 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 Kern v. Supreme Council, American Legion of Honor · Cole v. Skrainka · Sturgeon v. Hampton · State v. Metzger · Cartwright v. Liberty Telephone Co.
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.
““Such election shall be held within thirty days after the vacancy occurs, and the county court shall cause notice of the same to be published in some newspaper published within the county, and if there should be no newspaper published in,said county, shall then give notice, by ten written handbills, posted up in ten of the most public places in the county, for twenty days prior to the day of holding such election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Upon the occurrence of such vacancy, it shall be the duty of the presiding justice of the county court, if such court be not then in session, to call a special term thereof, and cause said' election to be held in pursuance of the provisions of this act, and the election laws regulating general elections in this State.””
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.