Krickbaum's Contested Election’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Smith v. Gallagher (1962), 141 Pa. Super. 107 - Commonwealth v. Brownmiller (1940)
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 Independence Party Nomination · People ex relat. Bush & Higby v. Collins · State ex rel. Jones v. Oates · People ex rel. Lee v. Prewett · Contested Election of Wheelock
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Within the rule that a de facto officer is one who is in possession of an office and discharging its duties under color of authority, by ‘color of authority’ is meant authority derived from an election or appointment, however irregular or informal, so that the incumbent be not a mere volunteer.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milliken v. Taylor““It may be said that ‘color of right’ which constitutes one an officer de facto may consist in an election or appointment, or in holding over after the expiration, of one’s term”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milliken v. Taylor
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.