Mayer v. Hemphill’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986), Chartiers Valley Joint Schools v. Allegheny County Board of School Directors (1965)
59 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 Bogash v. Elkins · Smith v. Gallagher · Silver v. Korr · Schrader v. Heath · Erie v. Gulf Oil Corporation
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Should he announce his candidacy for any other office he shall be automatically disqualified to continue to serve as Mayor, and the office shall be deemed vacant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.