Perles v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably In Re Nomination Petition of Johnson (1985), Baranyai v. Andrezjwski (1993)
27 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 Ross Nomination Petition · County Commissioner Substitute Nomination Case · Altoona Mayor Substitute Nomination Case
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.
“As soon as any substituted candidate shall have been duly nominated, at any time prior to the day on which the printing of ballots is started, his name shall be substituted in place of that of the candidate who has died or withdrawn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Substituted nomination certificates to fill vacancies caused by the withdrawal of candidates nominated ... by nomination papers shall be filed with the Secretary of the Commonwealth ... at least seventy-five (75) days before the day of the general . . . election. . . . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Davis
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.