Barnum v. Gilman’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1957 · most notably McKinney v. Barker (1918), State ex rel. Clapp v. Minnesota Thresher Manufacturing Co. (1889)
25 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 The People Ex Rel. Furman v. . Clute · Saunders v. Haynes · State ex rel. Off v. Smith · Gulick v. New · In Re Corliss
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities of both the English and American courts agree that the ineligibility of a candidate who has received the highest number of votes for an office will not, in the absence of any statute declaring them to be void, work the result of giving the election to the next highest candidate, when the voters for the former had no prior actual knowledge of the disqualifying fact, together with such other information as would raise a reasonable inference that they also knew that the fact amounted in law to a disqualification rendering the person voted for ineligible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips v. Ericson
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.