State ex rel. Herget v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1985
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 The People Ex Rel. Furman v. . Clute · Gulick v. New · Price v. Baker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The will of the electors was declared against him. He is not ‘the person having the highest number of votes,’ to whom the certificate must,, under the statute, be given; for these words imply that the successful candidate shall be the choice of the majority of voters who vote.” (Emphasis supplied). State ex rel. Herget v. Walsh, 7 Mo.App. 142 .”
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.