Jacques v. Litle’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1929
5 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 Ex parte Hennen · Dullam v. Willson · Chase v. Hathaway · State ex rel. Denison v. City of St. Louis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person duly elected to the office of director, clerk or treasurer of any school district, who . . . having entered upon the duties of his office shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him by the provisions of this.act, shall thereby forfeit his right to the office to which he was elected or appointed, and the county superintendent shall thereupon appoint a suitable person in his stead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Renker
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.