Hall v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1983
5 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 Dixon v. People · People v. Bradley · People v. Higgins · Chambers v. People ex rel. Storer · Guyer v. Stutt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Clause (h) is relied on strongly by the plaintiffs in error. They claim that the effect of the clause is substantially that every person who has authority to exercise, or who exercises any public function shall be deemed to be either an elective officer or an appointed officer, and that every elective officer shall be subject to the recall provision of the article itself. The clause (h) is perhaps capable of that construction, but it was repudiated by the decision of Guyer v. Stutt, supra."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The recall may also be exercised by the electors of each . . . city and town of the state, with reference to the elective officers thereof, under such procedure as shall be provided by law.”
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.