State Ex Rel. SULLIVAN v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State Ex Rel. Jones v. Lockhart (1953), Concini v. Sullivan (1948)
38 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 State v. Boehringer · Campbell v. Hunt · Watson v. Gattis · Wilson v. Blake · State v. Paul
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"§ 8. [Governor to fill vacancies.]— When any office shall, from any cause, become vacant, and no mode shall be provided by the constitution or by law for filling such vacancy, the governor shall have the power to fill such vacancy by appointment.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Londen v. Shumway · McCall v. Cull““ * * * This conclusion is in harmony with the general spirit and provisions of the Constitution, with the obvious intent of the Legislature, and with the general principles of democracy, which require that offices which are elective in their nature should, as far as practicable, be filled by election. * * * ” State ex rel. Sullivan v. Moore, supra, 64 P.2d at page 816 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Nor do we think that this is, in effect, an election contest. Counsel in raising this contention, overlook the fact that this action was not brought for the benefit of a private individual claiming ah office, but in the interest of the state to protect it from having two of its important offices administered by those who have no right thereto.””
2 later decisions 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.