Shell v. Cousins’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2005
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the acceptance of the incompatible office and holding the same for even so brief a space of time that forfeited the first office, and, as we have seen above, created an actual vacancy in the same, without any proceedings to remove him whatever, by quo warranto or otherwise; and if the office was thus vacant, and he absolutely out of it, he could in no manner affect the first office by what he did with the second, since resigning one office could not put a party in an office, nor could it restore him to one he had actually vacated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Wesley
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.