Napier v. McIntosh’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1940
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Elections should not be lightly set aside. A man who has been elected to office by a decisive majority should not be deprived of his office under the Corrupt Practice Act, unless facts are established fairly warranting the conclusion, that the provisions of the act were violated by him, of by others with his knowledge or authority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Parsons
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.