Gammage v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 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
Applies 2 U.S.C. § 381 (Federal Contested Election Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Roudebush v. Hartke · Barry v. United States ex rel. Cunningham · Laxalt v. Cannon · Odegard v. Olson · Burchell v. State Board of Election Commissioners
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“original and exclusive jurisdiction of all contests of elections, general or special, for all school, municipal, precinct, county, district, state offices, or federal offices”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Feehan v. Marcone“an adequate and constitutional remedy ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Feehan v. Marcone
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.