8 Smith & H. 248 - Ridout v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably Kidd v. McCanless (1956), Giles v. State Ex Rel. Giles (1950)
5 federal appellate · 43 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 ex rel. Jones v. Oates · Brown v. Lunt
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A de facto officer is one who is in possession of an office, and discharging its duties, under color of authority.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Gerbitz““Where the act, or exercise of the office, was single, continuity being lacking.””
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.