Egan v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1989
10 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 Faunce v. People · Ritter v. Democratic Press 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Contestant argues that, under the words ‘or who may be convicted of having given or offered a bribe to procure his election or appointment to office,’ it was not necessary for him to allege in his complaint that the contestee had been convicted of the crime of bribery, in order to sustain his action. We think differently. The conviction is the foundation upon which the cause of action must be based on a charge of bribery, and without such a conviction no ouster can be adjudged. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under our system of government, and the statute of this state and the constitutional provision referred to, “convicted” means when a person has been indicted by a grand jury, tried by a court and jury, and found guilty of the offense charged in the indictment; and it was the intention of the framers of the constitution that no person should be ousted from an office, when charged with the crime of bribery, until after such trial and conviction upon a verdict of guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. State
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.