Ramsay v. VanMeter’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Adams v. Walker (1974), People Ex Rel. Board of Trustees v. Barrett (1943)
7 federal appellate · 20 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 Fergus v. Russel · Wilcox v. People ex rel. Lipe · People ex rel. Akin v. Loeffler · People ex rel. Dunham v. Morgan · Bunn v. People ex rel. Laflin
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are two distinct elements in the above definition of the word ‘ office. ’ In the first place, it must be a public position and it must be created either by the constitution or by law; and in the next place, it must be a permanent position with continuing duties. To determine whether the first element is present we have but to look to our constitution and our statute to see whether the particular position under consideration has been created by the constitution or by law. To ascertain whether the second element is present it is necessary to determine the character of the position. ’ ’”
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.