Conway v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably 35 Ill. 2d 33 - People Ex Rel. Meyer v. Kerner (1966), 93 Ill. 2d 463 - In Re Contest of the Election for the Offices of Governor (1983)
28 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 Dale v. Irwin · Prentice v. Kimball · Farmers' National Bank v. Sperling · Holloway v. Freeman · McKinnon v. People ex rel. Malzacher
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The motion to dismiss Avas therefore properly sustained, because proper and necessary persons, indispensable to a decision of the contest upon its merits, were not made parties to the proceeding. At the time this order was entered, May 13, 1909, it was too late, under the statute, to bring in new parties to the contest.””
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.