State v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1959 · most notably Town of Grove v. Haskell, Governor (1909), In re Denny (1901)
25 state decisions — followed in 11 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 County of Cass v. Johnston · Harding v. Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Railroad · Beal v. Ray · Kenfield v. Irwin · Hubbard v. Town of Williamstown
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.
““In such cases the electors depend upon the notice required to be given, and not upon any knowledge derived from the law itself; and hence the right to hold such election at a specified time is the notice prescribed by the statute. It is therefore a mandatory provision, and the courts generally hold it to be essential that the prescribed manner shall be followed in order to give validity to the election. This court has always held that the particular manner provided by statute for giving notice of a special election must be strictly pursued.” (p. 5.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. Robson
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.