Kennedy v. Broughton’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2014
4 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 Ex Parte Barrett
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court was * * * without authority to issue the injunction and thus interfere with the canvassing of the returns and declaring the result of the election, regardless of whether or not the petition for said election was sufficient to authorize the calling of an election for the purpose for which said election was actually held.”
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.