State v. Able’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably Ewing v. Hoblitzelle (1884), Hamman v. Central Coal & Coke Co. (1900)
31 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 v. McO'Blenis · Brown v. Buzan · State ex rel. Circuit Attorney of Tenth Judicial Circuit v. Cape Girardeau & State Line Railroad · Van Slyke v. Trempealeau County Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance · Jaccard v. Anderson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there be a vacancy in the office of judge of any circuit, or if the judge be sick, absent, or from any cause unable to hold any term or part of term of court, in any county in his circuit, such term or part of term of court may be held by a judge of any other circuit; and at the request of the judge of any circuit, any term of court or part of term in his circuit may be held by the judge of any other circuit, and in all such cases, or in any case where the judge cannot preside, the General Assembly shall make such additional provision for holding court as may be found necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This decision was before the convention which framed the present (1875) constitution, and before the people of the State, who adopted it, and furnishes a reason for the additional clause to the section conferring the power, in words hampered by no limitations, upon the Legislature to provide for holding circuit court in any case when the judge could not preside.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Legislature had no power to authorize the appointment of an attorney to sit in the trial of a particular case in the circuit court.”
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.