Egan v. Mele’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on In Re Jones · Petition of Hughes · Commonwealth, State Ethics Commission v. Baldwin · COM., STATE ETHICS COM'N v. Baldwin · Egan v. Mele
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from final orders of the courts of common pleas in the following classes of cases: (2) The right to public office.”
2 later decisions 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.