Wetherbee v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1957
14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 People v. Holladay · O'Grady v. Barnhisel · Brunn v. Murphy · Follain v. Lefevre
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.
““We think that the courts ought at least to go so far as to take notice as to who fill the various county offices within their jurisdiction, and the genuineness of their signatures.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vinson v. O'Malley
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.