Putnam v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1993
8 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 State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham · State ex rel. McCaffery v. Aloe · Fletcher v. Tuttle · Green v. Mills · Heney v. Jordan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the end that the sovereignty, franchises, and prerogatives of the state may be protected and the public and private rights of all persons secured by an orderly and legal administration of the laws by the state's officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can have no right not conferred by law and cannot be harmed by a judgment prohibiting illegal action by the secretary of state.”
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.