Rhode v. Steinmetz’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1970
1 federal appellate · 14 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 · People Ex Rel. Dailey v. . Livingston · Kingery v. Berry · Coglan v. Beard · Beulah Marble Co. v. Mattice
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The court, upon recount, must be sure that it has before it the identical and unaltered ballots which were deposited by the voters, before they become controlling, as against the certificate of the result of the canvass of the election officers. Kingery v. Berry, 94 Ill. 515 . * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Burridge
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.