Cary v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 1981 · most notably Hodge v. Joy (1921), Suell v. Derricott (1909)
40 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. Carroll · Storey v. State · Noles v. State · Wilcox v. Smith · Gordon, Rankin & Co. v. Tweedy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Or, as we find the rule stated elsewhere, ‘the mere exercise of the functions of an office will not be sufficient to make a person a de facto officer where there is no claim to the office under color of an election or an appointment, unless the exercise thereof has been open, notorious, and continued for such a length of time, without the public having interfered, as to justify the presumption that the party was duly appointed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waldrop v. Courson
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.