State v. Compson’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2000
16 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 Thorpe v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · The People v. . Simeon Draper · State ex rel. Carson v. Harrison · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Covington
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * But when the constitution in one clause inhibits the legislature from creating an office the tenure of which shall be longer than a specified number of years, and in another provides that such officer shall hold until his successor is qualified, the two provisions are to be read and interpreted together, and the result is that the legislature is inhibited from creating an office the tenure of which shall be for a longer period than the time specified in the constitution; but if, at the expiration of that period, no successor has been elected and qualified, the incumbent holds over by the paramount right of tenure, which the constitution supplies, until he is superseded by a qualified successor, appointed or elected under some provision of law, and a failure of the particular authority to elect his successor does not create a vacancy in the office: State ex rel. v. Harrison, 113 Ind. 434 , 3 Am. St. Rep. 663 , 16 N. E. 384 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law seems to be settled that, where the duration of an official term is limited by the constitution, the office becomes vacant at the expiration of that term, even though the legislature has provided that the incumbent shall hold until his successor is duly qualified. 19 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (1st ed.), 433; State v. Howe, 25 Ohio St. 588 , 18 Am. Rep. 321 ; State v. Brewster, 44 Ohio St. 589 , 9 NE. 849.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The word `elect' simply means to pick out, to select from among a number, or to make choice of, and is synonymous with the words `choose,' `prefer,' `select,' and it was evidently used in this sense in the constitution.”
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.