Duff v. Salyers’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1946 · most notably State Ex Rel. McPherson v. Snell (1942), Greene v. Cawood (1929)
27 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 Ashley v. Three Justices of the Superior Court · L., H. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Schwab · Bentler v. Commonwealth · Chappell v. Colson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The choice of the'people at an election may not be lightly set aside. Guilt under the Corrupt Practice Act must be proved by competent evidence. It may be shown by circumstantial evidence, but, to be sufficient for this purpose, the inference from the circumstanbes must be sufficiently certain to satisfy the ordinary judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.