Devlin v. Osser’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably In Re Gross (1978), Colonial Gardens Nursing Home, Inc. v. Bachman (1977)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Butcher v. Bloom · Carelli v. Lyter · DeJOSEPH v. Osser
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides that such offices shall be open for the registration of electors,’ a guide to the meaning of ‘open offices’ can be found from the types of places [ejxpressly prescribed by 17 as being proper for registration. These are: (1) polling places; (2) schools; and (3) public buildings. These are, by their very nature, open to the public at large, and if there is any uncertainty about the proper construction here, the doctrine of [njoscitur a sociis would indicate that all places of registration must be open to the public.”
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.