Pawlowski v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1992
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
Relies on Pennington v. Hare · Pickett v. Russell · Martin v. McGarr · Burke v. Supervisors of Monroe County · State ex rel. Wold v. Hanson
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.
“[P]ublic policy forbids that, after it is known just how many votes are necessary to change the result ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“incumbent upon plaintiff to establish his right to the office, and, failing to do that, he must fail so far as this proceeding is concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. Hunhoff
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.