Moritz's Contested Election’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2018
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provision is not only plain with respect to the essential character of the security to be given, but mandatory that, [unless] the prescribed bond be filed within [ten] days after the filing of the petition to contest, the court shall dismiss the petition.”
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.