Moore v. Strickling’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably Ashley v. Three Justices of the Superior Court (1917), Daugherty v. Ellis (1957)
40 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Wall · Donahue v. County of Will · Conner v. . the Mayor, C. of New York · Dryden v. Swinburn · Attorney General ex rel. Rich v. Jochim
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is (151) impossible to conceive how, under our form of government, a person can own or have title to a governmental office. Offices are created for the administration of public affairs. When a person is inducted into an office he thereby becomes empowered to exercise its powers and perform its duties, not for his, but for the public benefit. It would be a misnomer and a perversion of terms to say that an incumbent owned an office or had any title to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mial v. Ellington.“In this, as in all similar cases, the circuit judge saw the witnesses face to face, beheld their demeanor on the witness stand, and heard them testify. On him devolves the duty of determining the credibility of witnesses and weighing their testimony; and, unless the evidence is credited [certified] to this court plainly preponderates against his finding, it will not be disturbed.”
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.