MacDougall v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1968
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The provisions of § 2 of Article 10, § 10-2, c. 46, Ill.Rev.Stat. 1947, requiring for a valid nominating petition at least two hundred signatures of qualified voters from each of at least fifty counties is not repugnant to, nor in violation of any provision of the Constitution of the United States, nor does it contravene § 18, Article II of the Constitution of Illinois. “2. This Court is without jurisdiction to examine or inquire into the decision of the Illinois State Officers’ Electoral Board * * * and to hold that the Board’s decision is null and void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not sufficient in law to entitle the said candidates’ names to appear on the ballot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Green
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.