Wells v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1996
15 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 Foster v. Richard Busteed · Brents v. Smith · People ex rel. Ahrens v. English · Whiteside v. Pulliam · Franklin v. Westfall
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 members of the canvassing board are mere ministerial officers, and it was not within their province either to determine the constitutionality of our statute on women suffrage or the constitutional question whether or not such associate judges belong to the class of officers for whom women may legally vote under said act. [Citation.] Their duty is a mere mechanical or mathematical duty. They can only compute the votes cast for the several candidates that are duly certified to them and declare the result. They had no right to go behind the returns and determine whether any of the votes cast were illegal.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ ‘ There was only one question presented, so far as disclosed by the pleadings, for the court to determine, and that is whether appellant was elected or appellee, who is now holding the office, and the only one holding the office whose right thereto is questioned. It was not necessary to make other candidates parties. ’ ’”
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.