Youngblood v. Marr’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2017
6 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 State ex rel. Jett v. Ives · State ex rel. May v. Hall · Johnston v. State ex rel. Sefton · Wills v. State ex rel. Hughes · Kimerer v. State ex rel. Black
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In case of a vacancy in the office of councilman from death, resignation or other cause, the common council shall fill such vacancy at a special meeting to be held at a time not less than two . . . nor more than fifteen . . . days after such vacancy is discovered by such council of which special meeting notice shall be given by the clerk as herein required when the council is to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Whenever it is provided in this Constitution, or in any law which may be hereafter passed, that any officer, other than a member of the General Assembly, shall hold his office for any given term, the same shall be construed to mean, that such officer shall hold his office for such term, and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.