Bond v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1930
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.
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 legislature . . . shall have the power to provide for the election or appointment of all officers, and the filling of all vacancies not otherwise provided for in this constitution.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Forrest v. Ryan““The term ‘general election’ has both a constitutional and statutory definition, and means the election held annually on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Raub
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.