Abbey v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Renck v. Superior Court of Maricopa County (1947), Kerby v. Griffin (1936)
46 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 Constitutional Prohibitory Amendment · Allen v. State · 17 Cal. App. 705 - Conn v. City Council · State ex rel. Kemper v. Carter · 55 Cal. App. 611 - Chester v. Hall
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The grounds or reasons assigned in the petition for the recall may be very general in their nature and character. It was the evident purpose to permit the electorate to get rid of an obnoxious and unsatisfactory officer with whom, for any or no reason whatever for that matter, they may have become displeased.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the event that his successor shall not qualify within five days after the result of said election shall have been declared, the said office shall be vacant, and may be filled as provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Osborne“He is not worthy of belief. He has a violent and ungovernable temper. He suffers from hallucinations. He violates the law by presiding in court with a pistol in his hip pocket.”
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.