Baker City v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1941
19 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 Badger v. United States ex rel. Bolles · People v. Tilton · State ex rel. Everding v. Simon · State ex rel. Jackson Township v. Berg · Taylor v. Sullivan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In State v. Sullivan, 45 Minn. 309 , 11 L. R. A. 272, 22 Am. St. Rep. 729 , 47 N. W. 802 , it is held, that, ‘the incumbent of an office, the term of which is for a specified period, “and until his successor is elected and qualified,” is entitled to retain the office after the lapse of the specified period, in the event of the election of another person to succeed him who is ineligible.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is only upon the application of the rule to statutory enactments governing the tenure of office that the authorities appear to part company.””
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.