State Ex Rel. Ulrick v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2026 · most notably Mitchell v. King (1976), Montoya v. McManus (1961)
2 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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Shurtleff v. United States · State ex rel. Hart v. Common Council · State ex rel. Milwaukee Medical College v. Chittenden · United States Trust Co. v. New York West Shore & Buffalo Railway Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the Governor followed the provisions of the Constitution in making the removal, it was valid. If he did not, it was a nullity.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All state officers . . . shall be liable to impeachment for crimes, misdemeanors and malfeasance in office. . . .”
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.