Thomas v. Sitton’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2022
16 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 United States v. Hartwell · Hall v. Wisconsin · Rhoden v. Johnston · Hill v. Rector · Moncus v. Raines
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It must necessarily follow, therefore, that a marshal of a city of the second class and a town marshal of incorporated towns are officers under the meaning of Art. 19, § 3 of our Constitution. That section provides: “No person shall be elected to or appointed to fill a vacancy in any office who does not possess the qualifications of an elector.” Appellee, Sitton, having never resided in the City of Clinton, was not eligible to hold the office of city marshal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Holt“(The qualified voters of each city of the second class shall, at the same time, elect a city marshall (marshal), city recorder and treasurer.) Each of said officers shall continue in office until his successor is elected and qualified, and shall have such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed in this act, or as may be prescribed by any ordinance of such city, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. (Act, Mar. 9, 1875, No. 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Mahan
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.