Wilcox v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1830
Citation profile
1 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 1948 · most notably The People v. . Cook (1853), Matter of Sherrill v. . O'Brien (1907)
1 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ There must be some color of an election or appointment, or cm exercise of the office, and an acquiescence on tbe part of the public for a length of time which would afford a strong presumption of at least a colorable election or appointment.””
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.