Davis v. Stahl’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1973
13 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 Montgomery v. Chelf · Hodge v. Bryan · Pflanz v. Foster · Cole v. Ridings · Adams v. Magisterial District No. 5, Perry Cty.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * there is no inherent power in the courts to pass on the validity of elections, or to try contested election cases, their authority being wholly statutory, and * * * the right to institute a contest must be found within the terms of the statute providing for contests. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fletcher v. Wilson
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.