Welsh v. Shumway’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 35 Ill. 2d 33 - People Ex Rel. Meyer v. Kerner (1966), People v. Sawhill (1921)
32 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 Kreitz v. Behrensmeyer · Behrensmeyer v. Kreitz · Dale v. Irwin · Rexroth v. Schein · Smith v. Croom
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he failure of a candidate to object to his opponent’s certificate of nomination in the manner provided by statute waives the objection, and it cannot thereafter be raised in an election contest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there must be, both in fact and intention, an abandonment of the former residence and a new domicile acquired by actual residence, coupled with the intention to make it a permanent home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What constitutes a residence in the abstract is a question of law, but whether it exists in a particular case is one of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.