McCluskey v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1997 · most notably City of Tucson v. Arizona Mortuary (1928), Crawford v. Hunt (1932)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 State ex rel. Walker v. Bus · Cooper v. Slaughter · The People Ex Rel. Kelly v. . Common Council · Winsor v. Hunt · Wells v. State ex rel. Peden
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An office shall be deemed vacant from and after the happening of either of the following (ten) events before the expiration of the term: . . . His (incumbent’s) resignation, and the lawful acceptance thereof. J ?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . The 10 events mentioned in section 996 are merely conditions, upon the occurrence of any one of which the Legislature has declared the office shall become vacant, not as a penalty or forfeiture, but simply as the legal effect of the happening of any one of the events mentioned."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ 'The specific position must be created by law; there must be certain definite duties imposed by law on the incumbent, and they must involve the exercise of some portion of the sovereign power.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holmes v. Osborn
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.