State ex rel. Halak v. Cebula’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Hanley v. Roberts (1985), Stahl v. Shoemaker (1977)
35 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 109 Ohio St. 454 - State Ex Rel. Lindley v. MacCabees · 135 Ohio St. 364 - State Ex Rel. Smith v. Nazor · 126 Ohio St. 633 - State Ex Rel. Haff v. Pask
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[H]e must show not only that he is entitled to the office, but also that it is unlawfully held and exercised by the defendant in the action.” State ex rel. Heer v. Butterfield (1915), 92 Ohio St. 428 , 111 N.E. 279 , paragraph one of the syllabus; State ex rel. Lindley v. The Maccabees (1924), 109 Ohio St. 454 , 142 N.E. 888 ; State ex rel. Smith v. Nazor (1939), 135 Ohio St. 364 , 21 N.E.2d 124 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the candidate receiving the highest number of votes is ineligible to election, the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes for the same office is not elected. Only the eligible candidate who receives the highest number of votes for the office for which he stands is elected to such office.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere possibility of appointment does not constitute entitlement in any way.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.