Black v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2005
23 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Margiotti v. Union Traction Co. · Gorham v. Robinson · Jenkins v. Congleton · Higgins v. Tax Assessors of Pawtucket · O'Brien v. Members of the Board of Aldermen
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[WJhere a petitioner seeks permission to file a petition in equity under the statute without the intervention of the attorney general, the primary issue must be the right of the petitioner to the office; and the petitioner in his petition must allege claim to it, and facts in support of such claim, or he will not be heard. In such a proceeding the petitioner can prevail only on the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of that of the respondent.” Black v. Cummings, 62 R.I. 361, 372-73 , 5 A.2d 858, 863 (1939).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is indisputable, therefore, that a proceeding in the nature of quo warranto to enforce a public right cannot be brought in this state without the intervention of the attorney general.” 62 R.I. at 367 , 5 A.2d at 861 .”
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.