Schuman v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1968
22 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 Wheat v. Smith · Jones v. Glidewell · Freeman v. Lazarus · Patton v. Coates · Whittaker v. Watson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Frauds of individual voters and the casting of unqualified and fraudulent votes do not vitiate the returns unless the officers are parties thereto: but in such cases the returns are accepted and purged of the illegal votes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webb v. Bowden
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.