Jenkins v. Congleton’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Black v. Cummings (1939), McKenna v. Williams (2005)
26 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 Harrison v. Stroud · Henderson v. Lane · Anderson v. Fowler · Doss v. Howard · Spurlock v. Lafferty
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““485. For usurpation of other than county offices or franchises, the action by the Commonwealth shall be instituted, and prosecuted by the Attorney-General. ’ ’ “486. A person who continues to exercise an office after having committed an act', or omitted to do an act, the commission or omission of which, by .law, creates a forfeiture of his office, may be proceeded against for usurpation thereof.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The generally recognized rule that quo warranto proceedings or the substituted statutory proceedings are the exclusive method of determining the right to hold and exercise a public office is founded upon considerations of policy and necessity. It would be detrimental to the public welfare and highly inexpedient that title to a public office should be put in question whenever any private citizen sees fit to make the assault. Under the rule a public office may not be the subject-matter of private litigation at the instance of one who has no interest therein, which differs from that of every other member of the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Robinson
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.