Riter v. Douglass’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1985 · most notably Nixon v. Herndon (1927), 40 Cal. 3d 703 - Canaan v. Abdelnour (1985)
20 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 Davis v. Beason · Bacon v. Walker · Rouse v. Thompson · State ex rel. Labauve v. Michel · Wells v. Blackman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is for the party to nominate; for the people to elect. The question is not who shall be chosen to any particular public office. That is for the voters of all political parties to determine at the polls. It is simply who shall represent the organization as its nominees, and certainly the determination of that question should be controlled by the action of the party itself; otherwise, party nominations are impossible.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koy v. Schneider“We do not think the sections of the Constitution providing the qualifications of electors applicable to the primary election provided for by this statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Davis
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.