Nesbitt v. Apple’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2024
5 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 Andersen v. Schacht · Hendrick v. Walters · Joyner v. Mofford · Wright v. Grove Sun Newspaper Co., Inc. · Oliver v. Mayor of Jersey City
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such action may be brought in the Supreme Court or in the district court, in the following cases: 1st, When any person shall usurp, intrude into, or unlawfully hold or exercise any public office, or shall claim any franchise within this state or any office in any corporation created by authority of this state; 2nd, Whenever any public officer shall have done or suffered any act which, by the provisions of law, shall work a forfeiture of his office; 3rd, When any association or number of persons shall act within this State as a corporation without being legally incorporated; 4th, When any corporation does or admits acts which amount to a surrender or a forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or when any corporation abuses its power or intentionally exercises powers not conferred by law; 5th, Where any corporation claims, by virtue of a congressional grant, any of the public lands or Indian lands to which the Indian title or right of occupancy has been extinguished; 6th, For any other cause .for which a remedy might have been heretofore obtained by writ of quo warranto, or information in the nature of quo warranto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“entering upon the duties of a second office or acceptance of a prohibited office ipso facto operates as a vacation of the first office, notwithstanding the person's intention of continuing to hold the first office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.