Spykerman v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Capital Cities Media, Inc. v. Toole (1984), In Re Jones (1984)
50 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 Johnson v. Manhattan Railway Co. · McNair's Petition · Carpentertown Coal & Coke Co. v. Laird · State Dental Council & Examining Board v. Pollock · Commonwealth ex rel. Specter v. Martin
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Q]uo warranto is the Gibraltar of stability in government tenure. Once a person is duly elected or duly appointed to public office, the continuity of his services may not be interrupted and the uniform working of the governmental machinery disorganized or disturbed by any proceeding less than a formal challenge to the office by that action which is not venerable with age, reinforced by countless precedent, and proved to be protective of all parties involved in a given controversy, namely quo warranto.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the electors of any township shall fail to choose a supervisor, tax collector, auditor or assessor, or if any person elected to such office shall neglect or refuse to serve therein, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office by death, resignation, removal from the township, or otherwise, a majority of the remaining supervisors may appoint a successor who is a registered voter.... In all cases, the successor so appointed shall hold the office until the first Monday in January after the first municipal election occurring more than sixty days after the vacancy occurs, at which election an eligible person shall be elected for the unexpired term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Prohibition is a common law writ of extremely ancient origin . . . Its principal purpose is to . . . prevent an inferior judicial tribunal from assuming a jurisdiction with which it is not legally vested.”
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.